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

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  Speaker 1: Helen Walker stars as Bricky Coleman, with John Beale as
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  Speaker 1: Quinn Williams. On May 15, 1948, CBS presented Suspense, episode 296,
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  Speaker 1: Deadline at Dawn, adapted for radio by Irving Ravitch from
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  Speaker 1: Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel, written.
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  Speaker 2: Under the name William Irish.
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  Speaker 1: In New York City, Bricky, a taxi dancer, gives shelter
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  Speaker 1: to Quinn after meeting him at a dance hall. The
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  Speaker 1: two discover a shared small town past and plan to
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  Speaker 1: catch a six o'clock bus out of town. Before morning,
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  Speaker 1: a robbery and a murder send them searching the city
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  Speaker 1: for answers. Anton M. Leder produced and directed. Now, back
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  Speaker 1: to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a
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  Speaker 4: full 60 minutes of suspense. Tonight, our stars, Miss Helen
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  Speaker 4: Walker and Mr. John Beale. Our story, Deadline at Dawn
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  Speaker 4: by William Irish. A suspense play produced and directed by
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  Speaker 4: Anton M.
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  Speaker 5: Leder.
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  Speaker 4: If you've ever been alone in a strange big city,
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  Speaker 4: you know the haunting loneliness of it. And you know
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  Speaker 4: how the sight of a familiar face, the sound of
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  Speaker 4: a familiar voice, can lift your spirits high. Even a
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  Speaker 4: stranger who comes from your hometown becomes a long-lost friend
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  Speaker 4: because he brings with him a breath of home, a
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  Speaker 4: flood of memories. That was the emotion that drew Bricky
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  Speaker 4: Coleman and Quinn Williams together. But their meeting wasn't the joyful,
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  Speaker 4: happy kind, for it was the beginning of longing and
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  Speaker 4: fear and danger. And now, with the performances of Helen
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  Speaker 4: Walker as Bricky Coleman and John Beale as Quinn Williams,
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  Speaker 4: and with William Irish's great story, Deadline at Dawn, we
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  Speaker 4: again hope to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Until I met him, men were just pink dance tickets
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  Speaker 2: to me. They were just two and a half cents
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  Speaker 2: worth of commission on the dime. Piers of feet that
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  Speaker 2: kept crowding mine all over the map, all over the floor,
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  Speaker 2: all over the night. They were blank faces that could
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  Speaker 2: steer me any way they wanted, until their five minutes
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  Speaker 2: were up. Because I was a New York taxi dancer,
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  Speaker 2: until I met him. A girl from a small town...
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  Speaker 2: caught and held fast in the big city, with all
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  Speaker 2: her dreams forgotten and all her hopes gone, and not
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  Speaker 2: caring anymore, not caring at all, until I met him.
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  Speaker 2: They always dimmed the lights for the last dance, just
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  Speaker 2: to make the customers feel sentimental about it all. At
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  Speaker 2: one in the morning, I was through again for the day.
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  Speaker 2: I put on my coat, go out the side door,
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  Speaker 2: Walk past the sad sacks who thought they were wolves
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  Speaker 2: and loitered on the sidewalk. And then I'd begin the
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  Speaker 2: twenty blocks to home. Home was a filthy old brownstone
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  Speaker 2: down near the river. The long smiths an old army caught.
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  Speaker 2: That was home. But at least it was a place
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  Speaker 2: where I could get out of my shoes and make
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  Speaker 2: some coffee and sleep to forget. I'd get home about 1.30.
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  Speaker 3: You left your door open.
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  Speaker 2: So I left my door open. Did you think that
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  Speaker 2: was an invitation to walk in?
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  Speaker 5: You better close it now.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, listen here.
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  Speaker 6: Close it.
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  Speaker 3: Please.
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  Speaker 2: All right. If you're a burglar, you won't find anything.
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  Speaker 2: The rats got here first.
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  Speaker 3: I am a burglar.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then you're not a very smart one. What are
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  Speaker 2: you looking for? Coffee grounds?
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't looking for anything.
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  Speaker 2: Then why don't you go, please? Find a nice, rich
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  Speaker 2: old lady to rob.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I need a place to stay for a while.
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  Speaker 5: I thought maybe you would let me.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Stay here? Look, I don't hand out favors. You're nothing
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  Speaker 2: to me. I know.
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  Speaker 5: It was just a hunch I had. The way you
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  Speaker 5: were looking at me. I thought I could come here
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  Speaker 5: for help.
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  Speaker 2: The way I was looking? I've never seen you before
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  Speaker 2: in my life.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you were looking straight at me. At the dance
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  Speaker 5: hall about an hour ago.
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  Speaker 2: You mean you were at the Cinderella ballroom tonight?
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  Speaker 5: Don't you remember me?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 3: That's funny.
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  Speaker 2: It's not funny at all. You all look the same
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  Speaker 2: to me. Namely, horrible.
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's my mistake.
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  Speaker 5: But I was sure. You seemed so.
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  Speaker 5: So nice.
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  Speaker 1: Did I?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's because I was thinking of home. I always do
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  Speaker 2: that on the job. Makes the night go faster.
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  Speaker 3: I guess I know what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: What'd you do, follow me?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 5: The man at the door gave me your address.
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  Speaker 3: For a dollar.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he did, did he?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I wanted to get off the streets. This time
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  Speaker 5: of night, the cops are curious. I thought I saw
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  Speaker 5: one of them following me, so I beat it down
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  Speaker 5: this hall to hide. That's when I found your door open.
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  Speaker 2: You picked a good place for hiding. Nobody ever comes
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  Speaker 2: here but the landlady. Once a month.
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  Speaker 5: Please let me stay a while.
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  Speaker 6: Please.
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  Speaker 2: What's your name?
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  Speaker 3: Quinn Williams. Quinn? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Never heard that name before.
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  Speaker 5: It used to be my mother's before she got married.
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 3: What do you say?
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  Speaker 2: You want some coffee, Quinn?
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: But get this straight. One cup of coffee and nothing more.
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  Speaker 2: No sugar goes with it. You give me one blink
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  Speaker 2: too many.
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  Speaker 5: Just coffee, I understand. A man can tell by looking
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  Speaker 5: at a girl whether she means one thing or another.
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  Speaker 2: You'd be surprised how many of them ought to have
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  Speaker 2: an optician.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Give me a match for the oven.
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  Speaker 3: Here you are.
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  Speaker 2: I got the oven lit and reached down some cups
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  Speaker 2: and saucers and watched him. Not that I was worried.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have closed the door if I hadn't thought
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  Speaker 2: I could handle him. It was only that he was
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  Speaker 2: so young and his face was so tight and strained.
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  Speaker 2: He'd been beat by the city. Must have been like
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  Speaker 2: taking candy away from a baby. And he trusted me
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  Speaker 2: because I'd smiled at him while I was dancing. And
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  Speaker 2: he thought that smile was for him. I wished it
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  Speaker 2: was all of a sudden because he was... Difference. Coffee
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  Speaker 2: won't be long.
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  Speaker 5: That's all right.
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  Speaker 6: I'm in no hurry.
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  Speaker 2: You're pretty young for a burglar, aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't take much training.
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  Speaker 2: Where'd you come from? And how'd it happen?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I come from a little town. It's nothing much,
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  Speaker 3: but I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a hick myself.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: My place is Glen Falls, Iowa. What's yours? What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I thought I said something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you said something right. It's crazy, a crazy coincidence,
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  Speaker 2: but I come from Glen Falls, too.
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  Speaker 1: Honest?
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  Speaker 2: Honest. What?
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  Speaker 5: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I know it is. What street did you live on?
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  Speaker 5: Anderson, up near Pine Street, second house down between Pine
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  Speaker 5: and Oak.
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  Speaker 8: When?
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  Speaker 2: We're neighbors. What? I live just across the street from you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, how is it we never met?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I came here five years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I've been here a year. You must have come
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  Speaker 5: to New York before we moved in.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Wait a minute. Have you got a brother with
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  Speaker 2: a lot of freckles?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Johnny.
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  Speaker 5: He's just a kid, about 18.
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  Speaker 2: My sister's been writing to me about her new boyfriend,
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  Speaker 2: a boy named Williams. How perfect he is, except for
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  Speaker 2: the freckles. And, of course, they'll wear off.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's Johnny.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, so you're the boy next door.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we'd probably have known each other very well if
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  Speaker 5: you'd stayed home.
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  Speaker 7: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I wish you had stayed.
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  Speaker 2: I do, too.
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  Speaker 5: What's your name?
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  Speaker 2: Ruth Coleman. Everybody at home calls me Bricky. They started
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  Speaker 2: it because I.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Because of your hair, huh? That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever feel that you want to go back?
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  Speaker 3: Every day.
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  Speaker 2: There's a bus leaves New York every morning at six.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I've inquired.
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  Speaker 2: I've got the fare sewed up in my mattress.
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  Speaker 5: Why haven't you gone?
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  Speaker 2: Because my mother thinks I'm dancing in a Broadway show.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'd be too ashamed. Because it's so hard to
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  Speaker 2: go back.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but you ought to go, Bricky. This morning at
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  Speaker 5: six o'clock.
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  Speaker 7: It's hard.
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  Speaker 5: You ought to go back.
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  Speaker 2: Hard going back alone. If someone could come with me, I.
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  Speaker 2: Would you come home too, Quinn?
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  Speaker 3: No, Bricky.
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  Speaker 2: You want to escape from the city, don't you? Just
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  Speaker 2: like me. You want to go back?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure I do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then come with me. If it's the fare you're
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  Speaker 2: worried about, I've got enough for both of us, including
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  Speaker 2: a good dinner in Chicago. Anything for the boy next door, quick.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks, Bricky, but it's too late. The police will be
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  Speaker 5: looking for me around 8 o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot. How long have you been a burglar?
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  Speaker 3: About three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Three hours?
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  Speaker 5: I did it tonight for the first time. So you see, Bricky,
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  Speaker 5: it's a little too late for me to go back.
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  Speaker 5: I've missed the bus by three hours.
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  Speaker 2: Coffee's ready, Quinn.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 2: Cream and sugar?
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  Speaker 6: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Black.
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  Speaker 2: Was it easy?
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  Speaker 3: Very easy.
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  Speaker 2: Why'd you do it?
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  Speaker 5: You'll do anything when you've gone for four days without eating.
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  Speaker 7: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: But it's funny.
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  Speaker 5: After I'd done it, I went straight to the best
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  Speaker 5: restaurant in town. I looked at their menu and got
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  Speaker 5: ready to order everything on it. Two helpings of everything.
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  Speaker 5: But I couldn't eat. So I got up and walked out.
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  Speaker 5: That's when I began to think cops were trailing me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not used to being a robber.
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  Speaker 2: So you still got it all.
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  Speaker 5: With you? $ 2, 500 in cash. Divided up into small rolls
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  Speaker 5: in all my pockets. You want to see it?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 5: Neither do I.
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  Speaker 3: But it's there. I can feel it.
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  Speaker 5: Against my skin.
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  Speaker 3: All over my body.
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  Speaker 2: Where did you get it, Quinn?
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  Speaker 5: I was working for an electrician about four months ago.
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  Speaker 5: One day I got a call to go to a...
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  Speaker 5: big house on 71st Street and put a fixture in
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  Speaker 5: the bathroom wall. I had to cut a big hole
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  Speaker 5: in the wall to do it. While I was doing that,
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  Speaker 5: I ran into a wooden box in the wall. I
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  Speaker 5: did my work just beside it.
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  Speaker 2: And that box?
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  Speaker 5: That box was the back of a safe.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Put into the wall of a study in the next room.
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  Speaker 5: The front of the safe was good heavy steel. When
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  Speaker 5: they built it, nobody thought it could be broken into
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  Speaker 5: from the other side through the bathrooms. Nobody ever would have, either,
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  Speaker 5: until an electrician ran into it one day by mistake.
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  Speaker 2: But all this happened four months ago.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You see, I'd brought more tools with me than I
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  Speaker 5: needed that day, and I left some of them in
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: my bag downstairs on a little table near the front door.
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  Speaker 5: When I got back to the shop, I found a
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  Speaker 5: key in the bag. I must have brushed it in
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  Speaker 5: while I was putting the tools back after finishing the job.
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  Speaker 5: It turned out to be a key to the front door.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't return it.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I meant to, but right then I forgot all
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  Speaker 5: about it. And when I did remember that I had
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  Speaker 5: the key, I was out of work and hungry and
• 12:57
  Speaker 5: wanting money badly, so I went back there to my box.
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  Speaker 5: I opened that hole again, pulled the back of the
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  Speaker 5: safe out. I didn't bother with any of the papers
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  Speaker 5: or securities. I just took the cash. The house was empty.
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  Speaker 5: The man who lives there Society fella by the name
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  Speaker 5: of Graves was probably out on the town, so I
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  Speaker 5: just walked out the front door. Seems like ten years ago.
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  Speaker 5: It was only three hours.
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  Speaker 2: So this Graves man will see the hole in the
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  Speaker 2: morning when he goes in to take a shower, and
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  Speaker 2: then he'll call the police?
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  Speaker 5: It'll be a quick trial, and a short one. But
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  Speaker 5: the sentence won't be so short.
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  Speaker 2: The boy next door... The boy you wave to when
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  Speaker 2: you come in or out of your gate. The grinning
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  Speaker 2: boy next door, friendly as a puppy.
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  Speaker 3: Go back, Bricky.
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  Speaker 5: It's where you belong. It's the only kind of life
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  Speaker 5: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Come with me, Quinn.
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  Speaker 5: I've told you I can't. They've got a long arm.
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  Speaker 5: They'll find me. And I'd rather have them find me
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  Speaker 5: here in the city.
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  Speaker 2: Have you still got the key? The key you went
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  Speaker 2: in with?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you can get back in before he comes home...
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  Speaker 2: Just in and out. Long enough to put the money back.
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  Speaker 2: They won't come all the way to Iowa for you
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  Speaker 2: just for chopping a hole in the wall if nothing's
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  Speaker 2: been taken.
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  Speaker 7: But, Ricky, that probably.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you want to go home at six o'clock this morning?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Ricky.
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  Speaker 2: If he's out on the town, he won't be home yet.
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  Speaker 2: At least that's what we'll pray for.
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  Speaker 6: We?
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  Speaker 2: We'll go together. Now, I'll wait outside for you, and
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  Speaker 2: then we'll go down to the terminal and buy our
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  Speaker 2: tickets and wait for the bus. We'll wait for dawn together, Quinn.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you'd do this for me?
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  Speaker 2: For the boy next door. Anytime. Anything. There was no
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  Speaker 2: time to lose. Graves might be coming home any minute.
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  Speaker 2: I ripped the money out of my mattress and we
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  Speaker 2: ran out into the cold, empty streets. Just as a
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  Speaker 2: cab cruised by. We piled into it and told him
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  Speaker 2: to take us to 71st Street. And to take us faster.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Everybody's always in a hurry. What's your hurry? The night's
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  Speaker 2: young yet. Never mind the conversation, Joe.
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  Speaker 7: Drive.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: The customer's always right.
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  Speaker 5: I just remembered.
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  Speaker 3: What?
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: I can't pay for this cab. Unless I use some
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: of our capital.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I don't care what you use, pal. Just so it's money.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it. You'll get paid. I'll pay him.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to use any of our capital, not
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  Speaker 2: a single penny. It's all got to go back.
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  Speaker 5: Ricky, when we get out of this, when we get
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: back home, I'll thank you then. I'll find a way
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: to thank you.
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  Speaker 6: 71st Street.
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  Speaker 2: Any special number?
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  Speaker 5: No, just let us out here on the corner.
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  Speaker 4: That's 90 cents, and I can break a 50 if
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: I have to.
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  Speaker 2: Here's 90 cents, and here's a dime.
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  Speaker 5: Have fun.
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  Speaker 6: Well, here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the house?
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  Speaker 5: Across the street and up a little. You wait here.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Don't come any closer than this. I'll be back in
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  Speaker 5: no time. Don't be frightened, Bricky.
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  Speaker 2: Don't take any chances, Quinn. If you see any lights,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: if it looks as if he's gotten back already, don't
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  Speaker 2: go all the way in. Just drop the money inside
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  Speaker 2: the door.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Bricky. Goodbye, then. Goodbye, Quinn.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Hurry back.
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  Speaker 2: I waited for him there in the chilly night on
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: the dark, empty street.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: I knew better. New York had taught me one thing,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: and that was never to be a sucker for a man.
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  Speaker 2: But then, this was no man. This was the boy
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  Speaker 2: who lived across from me on Anderson Street in Glen Falls, Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: The boy who'd come here to do big things, to
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  Speaker 2: lick the town, and instead, he'd been licked. Instead, he
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: was hiding in the dark, sneaking along the streets, helpless.
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  Speaker 2: The boy next to Then I suddenly crouched back into
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: a doorway. A patrolman was coming on his tour of duty.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: He stopped near me, not ten yards away. But his
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: back was to me, and his hand was opening a
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: call box.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: Ronson reporting in.
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: 2.35 a.m.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: How's the rummy game going?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Another thing, side.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: Quiet as church.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: He finished his call, closed the box, and went on
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: down the street. Then he turned a corner and disappeared.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: And I breathed again. He'd been right, though. It was
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: quiet as a church. And that was wrong. Because Quinn
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: should have been back long ago.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Ricky.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Ricky.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Tell me, Quinn. What is it? What is it? What
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: are you frightened about? What happened in there?
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: He's been killed.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: What? He's dead.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: He's lying in there.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: Dead.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: The man who lives there?
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Mr. Graves.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Was it you, Quinn? Did you do it the first
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: time you were in there tonight?
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: I swear I didn't, Bricky. I only took the money.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: He wasn't even there. He must have come back since.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: I knew you didn't, Quinn. I knew even though I asked.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Go down to the terminal. Get your ticket and climb
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: on that bus and forget we ever met.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Go on, Bricky. Beat it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: Before they find out.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Not without you.
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: But don't you see now, it's murder they'll charge me with.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: They'll find the bathroom fixture tampered with, they'll trace it
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: to the electrician, then to me, and they'll naturally think, oh,
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: don't you see, it's too late, Ricky.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: It's never too late. Don't you know that? Not until
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: the last second of the last minute of the last hour.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: We'll go back in there and see if we can
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: figure it out. It's our only hope. We're fighting for
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: our lives, Quinn, for our lives, and we have until
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: six o'clock this morning to win our fight.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: All right, champ.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: And so, very slowly, we went together into the place
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: where death was. The door closed on our backs, and
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: we felt our way down a long and narrow hallway.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: He's upstairs. I don't want any lights on down here.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Just hang on to my sleeve. I'll lead the way.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: We went forward in a sort of swimming darkness that
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: was almost liquid. It was so dense. I could feel
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the muscles in his arms shivering. But he was brave,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: not afraid. He was going into it, not running away
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: from it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: There's a step here.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: The stair creaked under our weight. I wondered if there
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: were anyone else in the house. Anyone still alive? Suppose
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: someone had slept through the murder. I'd be awakened any
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: moment by us.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: Now turn to the right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: We're on the second floor now. I smell the aroma
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: of leather and woodwork. I smell the last lingering trace
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: of a cigar. I smelled powder. A harsh, deadly powder.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And then I thought I saw... I thought I smelled
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: something sweet. Something very sweet.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: Here, Bricky.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: They say you can't smell a recent death, but I
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: could smell a stillness and a presence in it that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: was more than just emptiness.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Get your eyes ready.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Here go the lights.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: The dead man lay in the middle of the study.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: His face was all out of focus. The lines that
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: had been laugh lines were creases now, The mouth that
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: had been either strong or weak was just a gap now,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: a place where the face was open. The eyes that
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: had been either kindly or cruel were just glossy, lifeless
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: insects now. This was the dead man, and we'd come
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: for his secret.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: This is it, Bricky.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is it.
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: Now what do we do?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Well, shouldn't we close it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: They seem to be watching us.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: No, don't touch him.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I don't know how to anyway.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: He's still in his tuxedo. He couldn't have been home
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: very long.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: No.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Can you tell what it was done with?
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: No, I'll have to unbutton his jacket.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: There it is.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Must have been a gun.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, a bullet.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: It's round and frazzled. A knife would have made a slit.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Then we can be sure no one else was in
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the house or they would have heard it go off.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: And the killer must have taken the gun away. There's
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: no sign of one lying around.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: So he didn't do it himself. It can't be suicide.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Now what?
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: We'd better look in his pockets.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: I'll do it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: You look the things over as I hand them to you.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: All right, Quinn.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I'll start up here in the breast pocket. That's the
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: highest pocket in anybody's suit.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: His handkerchief.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Look, Quinn.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: The bullet went through this. The way it folded it
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: just made one little hole. But when you open it up,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: it makes three separate holes. Like when you cut papers
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: and make them into patterns.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: The one on the left side's empty. The right-hand pocket,
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: empty too.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Try inside the jacket. Yeah. Take out everything, no matter
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: what it is.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Cigarette case, silver, Tiffany's. Three cigarettes in it. The wallet.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Two fives and a single. Two ticket stubs from tonight's
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: show at the Belasco. C-112 and 114. So we know
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: where he was from 8.30 to 11.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Anything else?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Business cards. Stafford, Holmes, Inglesby, whoever they are. Oh, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: a snapshot. Girl in riding togs.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Let's see that.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the same ones in the silver frame over
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: there on the desk.
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: To Stephen with love from Barbara.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Then she didn't do it. If she had, she wouldn't
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: be there on his desk anymore. Just the silver frame, maybe,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: but not her anymore. That's common sense.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go on.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I'll have to lift him a little.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Left rear in the trousers.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Nothing.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Right rear. Spare handkerchief. Left side.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: Nothing.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Right side.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Match folder.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Some loose change.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: Latch key.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Not much help.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Do we know what we're.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Doing, Bricky?
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Quinn?
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: What?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: A man who's a cigarette smoker, and we found that
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: case in his pocket. Would he go in for cigars, too?
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Maybe.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Some people smoke both.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: But would he smoke two cigars alone by himself?
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Look, Quinn.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Two butts in this tray.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: And the tray is between two chairs facing each other.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: One cigar in one notch of the tray. The other
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: one around on the other side from it.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Two people, Quinn.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Two men. And they were having an argument. One of
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: them was worked up about something.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: You see?
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: This butt is smooth at the mouth end.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: And look at this one.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Chewed to ribbons. Chewed to a fringe. That tells it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: But which is which? Who was calm and who was
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: steamed up? And who was the other man with Graves? Oh, Quinn.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Wait a minute.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Here's something.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: What?
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: It must have fallen out of his pocket. He was
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: probably sitting on it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: Fine.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Another book of matches.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: That's just it.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: Another one. Graves had some on him, so this is
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: the other man.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: And did he leave his name on it?
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: No, but he was excited. Look how many matches he
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: used up just on that one cigar.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: The folder could have been half used up before he began.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Maybe, but.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Take this. What does it tell you?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: It tells me to chew Dawson's gum.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Not to cover inside.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: What are you driving at?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Now, wait.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Here, take my matches.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Now, tear one off and strike it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Blow it out.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: You see what you did?
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: No.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: You tore the match from the right-hand side, didn't you?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: That's what everybody does. They start on the outside, on
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: the right... and worked their way over to the left.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: But this folder was worked in reverse. Now do you see?
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: The man sitting in this chair, facing Graves, was left-handed.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: We're making progress.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Are we, Quinn?
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: Of course we are. We know this man was rattled
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: about something. That he whittled away 15 matches to one cigar,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: then mangled it to ribbons between his teeth. That he
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: was probably on bad terms with Graves, and that he's left-handed.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Fine. Only you've missed something.
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: What?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: The matches belong to a woman.
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: A woman?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: A woman chopped that cigar to pieces?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Smell the folder. What do you get?
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: Sulfur, the way matches always smell.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Now, give that a minute to clear away. That's the
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: stronger of the two. It tops the other. Now.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Perfume, isn't it?
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: It's been carried around all day in a handbag. A
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: handbag that stinks of perfume. I noticed it in the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: dark when we were coming in. There's been a woman
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: in this room tonight.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Well, that gives us two of them, a man and
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: a woman. And they weren't here together. There are only
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: two chairs, one for Graves and the other one for
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: each of his visitors.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Who was the last to go, the man or the woman?
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: I don't know, but we're started. Look what we've dug
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: up in half an hour.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Two unidentified people in the biggest city in the world.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're right. It's no use.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, even so, we can't give up.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: It's no use.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: And what's more.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I'm yellow, Bricky. Let's give it up.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: You're not yellow, Quinn. Or I wouldn't be up here
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: in this room with you.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: I'd better tell you this while I can, Bricky.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: What?
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: I love you.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: It's three o'clock, Quinn, and we have till six. Three hours.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Bricky.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: Save it, Quinn. Save it for the bus when we're
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: on our way home.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: All right. But I don't know what to do next,
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: do you?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: In tonight's full hour of suspense, Helen Walker and John
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Beale co-star in Deadline at Dawn by William Irish. Tonight's
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: study in suspense. In just a moment, we will return
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: with Act Two of Suspense.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: And now, back to our.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Hollywood soundstage in Act Two of Deadline at Dawn. Co-starring
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Miss Helen Walker as Bricky Coleman and Mr. John Beale
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: as Quinn Williams. In radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Suspense.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: All the emotions of a lifetime have been crowded into
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: one night for Bricky Coleman and Quinn Williams, and dawn
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: is a fast-approaching deadline which they must meet. The bus
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: which will take them to home and safety seems remote
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: and unattainable as they stand now over.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: The body of a dead man in the quiet.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Apartment, knowing that they must find his murderer or stand
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: incriminated for the crime themselves. And suddenly, a terrifying sound
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: comes to them.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: What is it, Bricky?
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: It sounds like a burglar alarm.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Well, the front doorbell, maybe. Wait a minute, there's a
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: box over there, against the wall.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: A telephone.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Follow the cord. It's in his desk. In the drawer.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: What should we do?
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Well, I ought to answer it.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, be careful. You'll have the police here. They'll know
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: it's not his voice.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: I'll talk low. I'll pretend I'm him. Say a prayer, Bricky.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Hello?
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: Darling, this is Barbara. I had to speak to you.
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: We've never parted angry like this before.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: Maybe if we hadn't gone there, to that parakeet place,
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: it wouldn't have happened.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: No.
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: Who was she? The tall redhead in the light green dress?
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: You told me that before. Then why'd she slip a
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: note into your hand? I saw her do it, you know.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: Did you?
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: And then you couldn't wait to see me to my
• 30:33
  Speaker 7: door and get me off your hands. What happened, Steve?
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: Did this woman come by to see you afterward? Is
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: that why you wanted to get rid of me?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: No, Barbara.
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: Steve, you sound so far away. Is it the telephone?
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: Or is it you?
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Poor connection.
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: You sound so cagey. As if someone were there now.
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: Can't you talk louder?
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 31:00
  Speaker 7: What's going on there? This is Stephen, isn't it?
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: It's just catching on. I'm sunk.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Take your hand away from the mouthpiece and turn it
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: my way. Sugar, come on. I'm getting tired of waiting.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: How much longer are you going to stand there talking?
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, Stephen. Forgive me.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: I didn't know. You can hang up now.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I feel like a heel.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Well, stop it. We don't have time.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: A parakeet? That's a nightclub, isn't it?
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, on 54th Street. A woman slipped him a note, Quinn.
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: A woman. Could be.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Do you think he tore it up?
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: Maybe not.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Maybe he wanted to have a good look at it
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: when he got home, alone.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Let's look again.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: I went through those pockets pretty carefully. I'm sure it's
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: not there.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: We might have missed something. Quinn, turn him over again.
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: All right. Nothing.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Nothing at all.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Shall we go through the desk?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: What?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Run your eyes over him again.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: I don't see a thing.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: He's very well dressed. And yet, isn't that a hole
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: in the heel of his sock? There, just showing over
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the shoe?
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: That's funny.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Take his shoe off, Quinn.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: Okay. The note.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: He didn't want Barbara to see it.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: So he hid it here until he could be alone.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: And he never was alone.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Just a scrawl.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Go on.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Mr. Graves, I'd like to speak to you in private
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: after you've taken the young lady home. And I don't
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: mean some other time. I mean tonight. I wouldn't want
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: to be disappointed. That's all.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: It isn't signed.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: A woman of the matchers.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Sounds like a shakedown.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: You mean blackmail?
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: He'd have to pay attention to a note like this.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Then we're going nightclubbing, my boy. We'll visit the parakeet.
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: It'll be closing by now.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: She must have been seen there. A tall redhead in
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: a light green dress. We'll check with the people who
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: work there. They'll still be around. Waiters, checkroom girl, washroom attendant.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: We'll find her.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, we will, Bricky.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I'll trace her if I have to go over the
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: hairbrushes in the dressing room one by one for stray
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: red hairs.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Let me kill the lights. I'll be right with you.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Hey, don't forget the switch. The one over the sink
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: in the bathroom.
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: I won't.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Come on, Quinn. Time's running out.
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: In a minute.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Is anything wrong?
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know. Look what I found.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Why, it's a check. Yeah. Made out to Stephen Graves
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: for $ 12, 000. Signed by Arthur Holmes.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: And look how it's stamped.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Returned.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: No funds.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Where'd you find it?
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: In the dry bottom of the tub.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: How did it ever get there?
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Just one way.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: When I came here tonight, the first time, I did it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: How?
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Well, don't you see, when I pulled the cash box
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: out and opened it, the check must have slipped out
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: into the tub without my noticing it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: And then this fellow Holmes came, our jittery cigar smoker,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: maybe to ask Graves not to prosecute on a bad check,
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: to stall for time. Graves went to find the check,
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: and he couldn't, because it was on the other side
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: of the wall in his bathtub, and Holmes thought he
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: was trying to put something over on him.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: And you think Combs shot him? Killed him for $ 12, 000?
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: It's been done before.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: And what about our redhead?
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Bricky, it's the man. It's gotta be.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I think it's the woman. We'll have to split up.
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: No, let's do it together.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: The way we started.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: It's too late. We can't follow them one at a time.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Our deadline's at dawn, Quinn, and we've got less than
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: three hours.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: That bus to Glen Falls.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: The last bus. Remember that. It's the last bus for you.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: And for me, too.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Then we'll be saying goodbye, Bricky?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, Quinn. Goodbye till dawn. We went down into the
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: empty streets without talking to each other again. And I
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: went one way and Quinn went the other. In ten minutes,
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: we were blocks apart. Maybe miles. But it seemed to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: me that I was still at his side, still with him,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: as he finally found an all-night drugstore and went back
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: into a booth. I knew he'd dial all the Arthur
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Holmeses in the book and talk to a lot of angry,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: sleepy people. And then he'd find the right one, the
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Arthur Holmes we wanted. What would Quinn do then? What
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: would he say? What would happen?
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: Hello?
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: Is this Mr. Arthur Holmes?
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: Who is this?
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Well, Mr. Holmes, you don't know me.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: Who is this that wants to speak to Mr.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Holmes?
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: The name isn't known to you, Mr.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Holmes, but.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: What makes you think this is Mr. Holmes? And are
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: you aware that it's almost four o'clock in the morning?
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: What do you want?
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: I have a check here that belongs to Mr. Holmes.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Will you let me talk to him?
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: You're speaking to him.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: It's made out to Stephen Graves, and I have it
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: right here in my hand. find it i found it
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: on the seat of a taxi it must have slipped
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: out of someone's wallet who was with you when you
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: found it no one just me by myself.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: Whom did you show it to afterwards.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: No one who's with you now no one i swear
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: and you.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Called because you thought i might want it back that's
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: right i'm sorry.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: Your time is up deposit another nickel please shall i
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: hang up mr holmes.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: Tell me, what's your name?
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Quinn Williams.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Tell me something about yourself. What do you do? Are
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: you a married man?
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: No, I'm single. I live by myself.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Not even a roommate? Nobody.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Strictly lone wolf.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: I'd like to see that check, Quinn. Maybe I can
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: do something for you.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Fair enough.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: There's a little bar called Owen's down on 51st. You
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: know it?
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: I know where it is.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: It'll take me about 15 minutes to get dressed and
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: get down there. Is 15 minutes good for you?
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: Just fine, Mr.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Holmes. I'll see you there.
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: You're a cagey boy, Mr.
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: Holmes.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: But you swallowed.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: Over here in the booth.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Good evening, Mr.
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: Holmes.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: Good evening.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Sit down, won't you?
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I will.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: You're right on time.
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: Sure.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Sure. So are you.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Here's a drink for you. I had water ahead, so
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I'd be allowed to stay in here. It's past closing time.
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: Thanks. What's the matter, son? Nothing.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: It'd just be funny, that's all. Funny and kind of
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: corny if you'd slipped a little something into this.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Take mine, then.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: I haven't put it to my mouth yet. I think
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: I will.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Bottoms up.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Bottoms up. My car's around the corner. Would you rather
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: talk about it there?
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I would.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: I think we ought to be alone.
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: That's easy, son. We can be alone.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: That's enough driving.
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Pull up.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I just thought we'd coast a bit. We can't sit
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: talking at the curb at this hour. We'll have a
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: cop down on us sticking his nose into the car.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with that?
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: I don't know. Do you?
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: I was asking you.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: However, if you want to pull up....
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: The East River. A mighty mysterious place at this time
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: of day. You're pretty close to the edge, aren't you?
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: The wheels are blocked. You're not nervous, are you?
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Now, about that check.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: I didn't find that check in a cab, Mr.
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: Holmes.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: I found it in Stephen Graves' house, where he's lying
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: right now on the floor, dead.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Stephen dead?
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: And your cigar is still in the room with him,
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: chewed to a pop. A Corona, like the one you're
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: smoking right now. You should have taken it with you, Mr. Holmes,
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: after you'd killed him.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: You seem to know a good deal about this.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: A little.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: Just enough to know who the killer is.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: I feel a little sorry for you. I didn't know
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: you were as young as you are over the phone.
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: What have I... What have I got to do with it?
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: You're having a lot of trouble with your eyes, aren't you?
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Lights on the dashboard have got rings around them, haven't they?
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Like big soap bubbles.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Say, you talk too much. You've talked yourself into the grave.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: I would have believed you about finding that check in
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: a taxi. You would have gone to sleep in the car,
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: and when you woke up, you wouldn't have the check
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: on you anymore. But you'd have had a $ 10 bill
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: in your pocket, too. Sugarcoat the experience. Head weighs too much,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: doesn't it? Too heavy for your neck.
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: My head.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: You should have stuck to your own drink, son. You
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: were suspicious, but not suspicious enough. You took the wrong glass. Me,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: I'm a chess player. You know what chess is? It's
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: figuring out your opponent's move before he makes it.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: It's a funny thing. The way my head's Like a
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: solid rock.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: You're going to sleep here in the car. Then you're
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: going into the river without a mark on you. But
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I'll take the check before I dump you. It's probably
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: in your shoe. It's about where your type of youngster
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: would think was a clever hiding place for it.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: Just clear my head. And then kick. Kick.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Trying to kick out the glass, son?
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: No.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: You haven't the strength of a kick left in you. No,
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: it's all over. That's water in front of us. That
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: even black line you see. Right over the hubcap. You
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: can't even move, can you? That's right. Make a lazy
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: pass with your hand like you're brushing away flies. That's
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: about all you're able to do. In a minute... You
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: won't even be able to do that. There go your eyes. Down, down, down.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: You won't get away with this, mister. Bricky knows. There
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: are two of us. Not just one.
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: The End.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: And so I walked away from Quinn, and I was
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: alone again. I'd met him only a few hours before,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: and with him I'd met my past and my home
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: and everything I loved and wanted. And now I was
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: alone again. Somewhere in this sleeping city, Quinn was after
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: his man, and I was after my woman, my redhead,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: my long-stemmed American beauty. The nightclub parakeet was dead. Dead,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: but not quite cold. Just in the process of giving
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: up the ghost. Every other minute, a solitary figure would
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: come out and walk away. Someone who earned a living inside.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: This was the five o'clock in the afternoon of the
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: nightclub workers, whose clock goes in the opposite direction to
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: that of the rest of the world. And what did
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I have to go on? A redhead blackmailer, who had
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: quickly scribbled a note to a man. And that kind
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: of woman doesn't ordinarily carry around pencil and paper in
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: her purse. She sends messages with her eyes and her hips.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: If she wants a pencil, she's got to borrow.
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: It from the help.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: What's the matter? You work here, don't you? I'm in
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: the check room till something better turns up.
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: Why?
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I wondered, did my friend in a light green dress,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: a redhead, did she borrow a pencil from you tonight?
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: It works the other way around, honey. The men take
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: out their pencils and give me names and addresses and
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: telephone numbers.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: I got a fistful.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: But didn't a woman... It's no dice, honey.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: I don't even see any women in my stall.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Another long day.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: My feet swell up all the time.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: You want to try Epsom salts? Water as hot as
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: you can stand.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Well, my name's Jerry. But don't let the name stand
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: in your way.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for my friend, a redhead in a light
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: green dress. Did she borrow a pencil from you tonight?
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: Not at my end of the bar. How about it, Frank? Sure,
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Joan Bassett.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: About midnight.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: She's always borrowing something and forgetting to give it back.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: How that girl forgets. That's the way Joanie is. Do you...
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Do you know where I can find her?
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: Well, try the Concord.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: That was the last address.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: But she's probably moved by now. Thanks, fellas.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Can't I do anything for you?
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Another time, Jerry. Okay, that's a promise.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Another time.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: What can I do for you? Be friendly, Pop. Say hello.
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: That's better.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: What do you want, a room?
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: Are we full up?
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: What room's my girlfriend got? I want to run up
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: and tell her something. You know, Joanie.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: Joan Bassett?
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Joan Bassett. Only we don't have to be so formal.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: She's in 409, sugar. Hey, wait a minute. I'll try it.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, skip that. She don't have to put on no
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: ears with me. Who's she kidding? I know she's two
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: weeks behind no rent. All right.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: If you know that well, going up.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: What do you want? You. I want to talk to you.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: Well, just stand out there a minute and tell me
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: what about. We got a friend in common.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: You and I.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: It's possible.
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: Go on.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: This friend's name is Stephen Graves. Um, suppose you come
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: in a minute. I'll hear what's on your mind.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: I thought that might do it. Do you have to
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: lock the door? Yeah, I think I do. Whatever you
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: think best. Begin with your name. You can put me
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: down as Carolyn Miller. All right, Carolyn Miller. Now about
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Stephen Graves. What makes you think I know him? Stop
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: being polite. You know him. Did he mention me to you? No.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: He wasn't doing any mentioning of anybody. He wasn't doing anything.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: You been over to see him lately? Very lately. I
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: just came from there now. How did you find him?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I found him dead.
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: See.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, that tap in the kitchen is loose again. Excuse
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: me a minute while I tighten it. I'd known we
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: weren't alone the moment I came into that room. And
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: I knew that faucet in the kitchen was a signal
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: for a quick conference. It was my chance. Maybe I
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: had a minute, maybe only 30 seconds. There was only
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: time for one thing, the open handbag on the dresser.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Nothing there.
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: Lipstick.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Powder usual junk and then an unpaid hotel bill for $ 17. 89
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: from this place the Concord no good worthless and my
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: time was up yet something screamed at me to hold
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: on to it to slip it inside my stocking high
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: up and to get back into my chair well that's
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: done now where were we with Stephen Graves oh yeah
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: did you go up there alone or did you have
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: somebody with you alone I don't take my grandmother with
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: me when I'm visiting. I see. Somebody stop you at
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: the door and tell you? Is that how you found out?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Cops and people hanging around? Lots of excitement? No one
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: knows it. I found him alone. I had a key
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: to the house that he'd given me. I went up
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: and there he was. Dead. What'd you do? Holler bloody
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: murder and bring everyone down on the place? I got
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: out of there fast and quiet. I don't want to
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: be mixed up in it. Smart girl. And all this
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: happened just a little while ago, huh? Yeah. Nobody knows
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: yet but you? Me?
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: And you?
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Did you come here alone?
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: All alone.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Everything I do, I do alone. I guess I've hit
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: the jackpot.
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you sure have, baby.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: You've hit it hard. Make it tight, Griff, so she
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: can't make any noise.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: It's tight. Don't worry about that.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Well, Miss Carolyn Miller, you're in trouble now.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: You tell her.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: So Stephen Graves is dead and you felt a little
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: nosy about it, huh? You wanted the details. All right,
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: you can have them. You seemed to have known him
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: pretty well. Maybe he told you, did he? Did he
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: tell you about his kid brother who married a tavern
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: hostess back in Boston? Did he tell you what that
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: did to the fine old family? name when this girl
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: began asking for money? When she came to New York
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: and began asking Stephen for money? Did he tell you
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: that he paid and paid and finally decided to stop
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: paying so this girl and her friend had to pay
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: him a little visit tonight to try to persuade him?
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Did he tell you that?
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: Did he tell you what happened when he couldn't be persuaded?
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: No.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: No, he didn't tell you that. Because he wasn't talking
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: by then. By then he was dead.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: That's enough. You want to spend the night at it?
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, what's the play now?
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Don't you figure we ought to... No, not.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Here in the room. That's begging for it.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: You don't understand. I don't mean chop-chop, that kind of stuff.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: I mean, we're four flights up. That ought to be enough.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: The three of us get to drinking up here. She
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: goes over to the window to try to open it
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: for a little air, and it jams.
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: So she's got to push it.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, there's always a follow-up. It's a little messy.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Let me take care of this.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like you took care of the other when I
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: told you just to throw a scare into him so
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: he'd come across.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: Well, some scare you threw at him, Griff.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I scared him right out of his skin, right out.
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: Of his heart.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: I don't want you to be so impulsive this time.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Well, then let's blow.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: We'll stuff her in the closet, backs up against a
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: dead wall so she'll never be heard.
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: It'll be days before they get around to busting the
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: door down.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll be far away by then.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, far away.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, I can pack in ten minutes.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: Unless I'll give you a hand.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: Hey, what.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. I'm missing that hotel bill. It must
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: have fallen somewhere on the floor.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: Don't worry about that. He can make up a new
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: one for you down at the desk.
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, sure.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: Well, shall we get her out of the way first?
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Hang Carolyn Miller in the closet.
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: See, Daisy.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Make her comfortable, Griff.
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: We want to be extra nice to her because there's
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: a little fresh air in there.
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: There'll only be a minute.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Griff!
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: Put her down.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Put her down, quick! I ought to have my head examined.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: You mean you slipped on something?
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, forgot. We both clean forgot. What was it tipped
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: her off to me? She didn't pull my name and
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: address out of a hat.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Get that gag off her. You try to scream and
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I'll dent you. I won't scream. Now talk. How'd you
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: know I knew him? How'd you know where to find me?
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I'm going to let you have it and I'm going
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: to keep letting you have it until you answer. You
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: dropped your hotel bill over there. I found it lying
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: in the room with him.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: I ought to slap you down to the soles of
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: your feet.
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: You left your calling card.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: That's what you did.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: No, she's lying. I swear I saw it in my
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: handbag after I got back.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Did you take it out to show him? Answer me,
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: did you?
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: While you were waiting downstairs, it was part of the
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: build-up to show him how bad I needed money, but
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I know I put it back again.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: You think you know.
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: Well, I.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm almost positive. It fell out. It was for $ 17.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: 89.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: It had past due stamped on it in purple ink.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: It even had your room number on it.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: And what did you do with it? Did you bring
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: it with you?
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I left it where it was. I was afraid to
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: touch anything.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: We'll have to go back and get it.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: All right, we will. We'll take her with us. Fix
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: it to look like she did it to him. What
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: you want to do in the first place, Griff, why
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: don't you do it over there? Give him a double
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: header to figure out.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: Maybe.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's the only way. Rub out this detour by
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: finishing her off where she started from.
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: All right. Come on, Carolyn Miller.
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: We're going for a little ride.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: And so I went back into Stephen Graves' house for
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: the second time that night. They pushed me ahead of
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: them in the darkness, whispering to each other not to
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: use any lights yet, just as Quinn and I had
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: done a few hours before. Or was it a few
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: years before? Then we were in the study and the
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: lights were snapped on and the dead man was still
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: on the floor and nobody stepped forward to say, Bricky,
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: is that you?
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: No.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: He wasn't there. Quinn wasn't there waiting to help me,
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: to save me.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: Let's do what we have to do and get out fast.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: No, not yet. Something else first.
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: Well, you.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Where is it? Where's that hotel bill? Where'd you say
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: you saw it? Over there by him is where I said.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: And you believed me. Then you didn't. You lied.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: I lied.
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: Where is it?
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: Where have you got it?
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: That's your little problem.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Let me have that gun. I'll do it.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Here it is, Griff.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Get away from her.
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: Move over.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: Stand still, Carolyn Miller. I want to come real close.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: I want them to worry about whether it's suicide.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, Griff. I'll stand still.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: Good girl, Carolyn. Good girl.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: It didn't hurt. It didn't hurt at all. And I
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: opened my eyes to find out why. Griff stood in
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: the middle of the room, his face contorted, an arm
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: squeezing hard around his neck, and behind his face was
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: another face, a face I knew, Quinn's face, the boy
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: next door, fighting for me, fighting to save me. Then
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Quinn went down, all lopsided, and Quinn was on top,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: punching at it again and again, and Joan was racing
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: across the room with an end eye and raising her hand.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: I never played football as a little girl, but on
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: this night I decided it was time to try.
• 55:18
  Speaker 6: Ricky.
• 55:19
  Speaker 5: Ricky, darling. Quinn. Are you all right?
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Somebody's ringing church bells in my head.
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, you knocked yourself out with that flying tackle.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: Quinn. Quinn, what happened? Are they....
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're both asleep, Ricky. As sound as can be.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: I see you've wrapped them up nicely.
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I had to tear up a few good sheets
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: to do it, but I don't think Mr. Graves would
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: have minded.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: I'd given up, Quinn. I thought I'd beat you back here,
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: and I'd given up.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, Bricky.
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: I saw them coming in with you outside on the street.
• 56:00
  Speaker 5: I was watching from one of the front windows. And
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: something about the way you were walking between them, sort
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: of stiff, told me they had a gun on you.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: So I backed up into the bathroom and laid low.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: They're the ones, Quinn. They did it.
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: And we can go now. It's a quarter to six.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: We can catch that bus for home.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: There's one more thing to be done, Ricky. It'll only
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: take a minute. And then you and I aren't going
• 56:26
  Speaker 5: to have any more to worry about. Is this the police?
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: I want to report a murder. Oh, Quinn.
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: Stephen Graves, in his home on East 71st Street. There
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: are two people tied up in the same room with
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: the body, and they're the killers. You'll find a special
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: delivery letter in the desk from Graves' younger brother, and
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: that'll tell you the reason for the killing.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: What?
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: No, this isn't any rib. I wish it was.
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: Me?
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: Just a guy who happened to be passing by.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: We can take their car. He left his keys in it.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Come on, Quinn, hurry.
• 57:04
  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: We'll make it.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: Don't you worry, Bricky.
• 57:21
  Speaker 7: I'm not worried.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: I know we will. What happened to you tonight? Did
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: you find Holmes?
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: And?
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: And he tried to kill me.
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: When?
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: It was your name that saved me, Bricky. I called
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: out your name. I told him you were in on
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: this with me. And he changed his mind in a hurry.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Then we saved each other.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 57:44
  Speaker 7: What about the check?
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: How did it figure?
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: Well, Holmes was caught short when he wrote that check.
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: And Graves got sore when the bank returned it. They
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: talked it over tonight, and it ended up with Graves
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: giving him another day to raise the money. The reason
• 57:56
  Speaker 5: Holmes was so jittery was that the check seemed to
• 57:58
  Speaker 5: have disappeared. He didn't know what.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: Graves might be pulling.
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: And of course, Graves wasn't pulling anything with that check
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: lying in the bottom of his bathtub.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: You told Holmes how it got there? Yeah.
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: And look what I've got.
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Two hundred dollar....
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: Quinn!
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: No, I didn't steal it. After he decided he wouldn't
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: kill me, Holmes and I got very chummy. He said
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: we'd both made a mistake in the same night. Me
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: breaking into a safe and him with his bad check.
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: He'd slipped me a pill earlier in the evening, and
• 58:32
  Speaker 5: now he was walking me around to sober me up.
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: That's when he gave me the money. A nest egg
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: for me, he said. I could send it back to
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: him a little at a time later on.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: We'll send it back, Quinn.
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: We, Bricky?
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: We're in this together.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: Aren't we? Yes, Bricky, we are.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, look, Quinn. We made it. We're in time. The
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: bus is still there.
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: Come on, Bricky. Let's go on home.
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Helen Walker and John Beale, for your truly
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: wonderful performances as Bricky and Quinn. And to Lillian Byer,
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: Rye Billsbury, Edith Tackner, Buddy Gray, and Bill Johnstone, thanks
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: for your splendid support. With this performance, suspense leaves the
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: air for a short vacation period. We will return on
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: Thursday at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, starting Thursday,
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: July 8th. with an outstanding series of gripping suspense stories
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: featuring the acting of your favorite stars of the screen.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Watch for the new suspense series starting Thursday, July 8th.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 10: Miss Helen Walker may soon be seen in My Dear Secretary,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 10: and Mr. John Beale will soon be seen in Paramount's Abigail,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 10: Dear Heart. Deadline at Dawn by William Irish was adapted
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 10: for radio by Irving Ravitch and was produced and directed
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 10: by Anton M.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: Leder.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 10: Lud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor. Lucian Marowak
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 10: composes the original scores. Be sure to watch for the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 10: new half-hour series of radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 10: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: It was the 1948 suspense presentation, Deadline at Dawn. This
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: is Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night. Follow Old
• 1:00:49
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