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Suspense - "The Angel of Death" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On New Year's Eve in London, John Forsythe learns that
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  Speaker 1: his wife, Pamela, and his close friend, Raymond Tillotson, intend
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  Speaker 1: to flee together for Brazil. It is the starting point
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  Speaker 1: for Suspense, The Angel of Death, Episode 3, originally heard
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  Speaker 1: on CBS January 3rd, 1946. Paul Henraid stars as Forsythe,
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  Speaker 1: whose first-person account carries the action from his London home
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  Speaker 1: to courtroom testimony. Frederick Warlock is also heard in the cast.
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  Speaker 1: Forsythe meets the betrayal convinced that his intellect can govern
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  Speaker 1: every consequence. Alan Cameron wrote the drama, and William Spear
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  Speaker 1: served as producer, editor, and director for Roma Wines. And now,
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  Speaker 1: our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, made in California for enjoyment throughout
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  Speaker 2: the world.
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  Speaker 3: Roma Wines present.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense! Tonight, Roma Wines bring you Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Paul Henry as star of The Angel of Death, a
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  Speaker 5: suspense play produced, edited, and directed for Roma Wines by
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  Speaker 5: William Spear.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills, is presented for your
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  Speaker 2: enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. Those excellent
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  Speaker 2: California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the
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  Speaker 2: way you live, to your happiness and entertaining guests, to
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  Speaker 2: your enjoyment of everyday meals. Yes, right now a glass
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  Speaker 2: full would be very pleasant, as Roma Wines bring you Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Henreid in a remarkable tale of Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: December 31st, New Year's Eve.
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  Speaker 6: I shall identify myself as John Forsyth, my true name,
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  Speaker 6: as I have no reason to fear its being known
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  Speaker 6: or to assume one of.
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  Speaker 4: A different character. My early life has no place in
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  Speaker 4: this narrative, save only to point out with the utmost
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  Speaker 4: objectivity that.
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  Speaker 6: I've always been possessed since my tenderest youth of extraordinary
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  Speaker 6: intellectual powers.
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  Speaker 4: As witness my acquisition.
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  Speaker 6: At the age of 16 of degrees from not one,
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  Speaker 6: but three of the leading universities of Europe, where, despite
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  Speaker 6: my British nativity, I spent my formative years. But this
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  Speaker 6: fact has no special significance, other than as it applies
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  Speaker 6: to those events which were set in motion on another.
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  Speaker 4: New Year's Eve in London, 15 years ago.
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  Speaker 6: For it was on that evening, as I had planned
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  Speaker 6: some weeks before it should be, Then I stood outside
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  Speaker 6: a door and listened for confirmation of the relationship I
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  Speaker 6: knew existed between my best friend and my wife.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, darling, darling, darling. Now, now, now, it's all right, Pam.
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  Speaker 7: It's all over now. Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Are you happy?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, now that we've decided, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Almost for the first time since I can remember.
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  Speaker 8: I know, darling, and I suppose we should feel sorry
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  Speaker 8: for him, but I can't, not after the way he's
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  Speaker 8: treated you.
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  Speaker 4: Raymond, what do you suppose he'll do? It doesn't matter, darling.
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  Speaker 8: Tomorrow we'll be on the Atlantic Ocean and within a
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  Speaker 8: month we'll be on my uncle's plantation in Brazil where
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  Speaker 8: he couldn't find us if he looked for a hundred years.
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  Speaker 4: No, I suppose it doesn't matter. Now, how long will
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  Speaker 4: it take you to pack?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, an hour.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I ought to be back by then. I've just
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  Speaker 4: got to pick up the tickets and a few things.
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  Speaker 9: All right, hurry, darling.
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  Speaker 8: I will.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye, darling. Goodbye. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: Good evening, my dear.
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  Speaker 7: John! Why?
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter, Pamela? You look as though you'd seen
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  Speaker 4: a ghost.
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  Speaker 3: Why, nothing.
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  Speaker 7: You startled me, that's all. You said you were going
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  Speaker 7: out of town for the holidays, and you don't usually
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  Speaker 7: come in by the back door.
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  Speaker 4: You needn't be alarmed. I shall be only a moment.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot something.
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  Speaker 3: Can I get it for you?
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  Speaker 4: Your anxiety for my every wish is touching. But no,
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  Speaker 4: thank you. By the way, Pamela, have you any last words?
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  Speaker 3: Any what?
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  Speaker 4: We may not see each other for a while, you know.
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  Speaker 4: What are you talking about, John? What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my dear, sometimes I wonder if I married you
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  Speaker 6: out of infatuation for your beauty or pity for your stupidity.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, John, please.
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  Speaker 4: Pamela, where do you suppose we shall all be, say,
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  Speaker 4: within the month? Does it really matter so much? No, no.
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  Speaker 6: I suppose he does not. Within the month, I was
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  Speaker 6: on trial for their murder.
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  Speaker 4: You are Henry.
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  Speaker 10: Jenkins, proprietor of the Crown and Lion, number 17 Buxton Street.
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  Speaker 4: I'm that one, sir, I am. Henry Jenkins, sole owner and.
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  Speaker 10: Now, will you kindly repeat the words spoken by the
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  Speaker 10: prisoner in the dock while in your place of business
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  Speaker 10: several weeks ago?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Well, about two weeks ago one night, Mr. Forsythe there...
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  Speaker 8: who's a steady customer of mine, sir. Although he's not
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  Speaker 8: what you'd call a sociable man.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 8: Well, sir, all me other customers had gone home, and
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  Speaker 8: I was asking Mr. Forsyte to leave also, just so
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  Speaker 8: I could close up me shutters, you know. When Oliver
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  Speaker 8: suddenly looks up at me and he whispers, kind of horse-like.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Jenkins, I did it. I finally did it.
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  Speaker 8: Not knowing what he did, I naturally asked him what
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  Speaker 8: he did.
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  Speaker 4: And what did the prisoner tell you, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Jenkins?
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  Speaker 4: He said, sir, warning me, warning me to keep it quiet.
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  Speaker 4: I found them together and I killed them.
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  Speaker 8: And then he laughs in a crazy way and adds,
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  Speaker 8: and Jenkins, I hid the.
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  Speaker 4: Bodies where no one will ever find them. That's what
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  Speaker 4: he said, sir. So help me it is.
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  Speaker 9: I saw him burning what looked to be a lot
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  Speaker 9: of bloody clothes. In the furnace it was. And he
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  Speaker 9: didn't try to hide them either. Just stared at me
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  Speaker 9: kind of odd-like and went right on as brazen as
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  Speaker 9: you please he did.
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  Speaker 4: He told me he wasn't worried at all. He said
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  Speaker 4: the two of them would never get away together. Except
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  Speaker 4: if they are dead.
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  Speaker 9: I heard him say it on the stair landing one
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  Speaker 9: night and several other times in their rooms. Pamela, he says,
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  Speaker 9: if you don't stop leering at Raymond Tillotson with those
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  Speaker 9: evil eyes of yours, I'll see the two of you
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  Speaker 9: in your graves.
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  Speaker 7: I warn you.
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  Speaker 11: The court feels that it is its duty at this time, again,
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  Speaker 11: to remind the prisoner that he has so far made,
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  Speaker 11: nor allowed to be made by counsel in his defense,
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  Speaker 11: no cross-examination of witnesses, nor a buttle to the charges
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  Speaker 11: made by the prosecution of any kind, and that this
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  Speaker 11: attitude can only result adversely to his cause. The prisoner
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  Speaker 11: is therefore once more given opportunity at this time to
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  Speaker 11: make such a buttle.
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  Speaker 3: Does the prisoner wish to do so?
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  Speaker 4: No, Your Lordship, I do not.
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  Speaker 11: Does the prisoner wish to make any statement of any
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  Speaker 11: nature whatsoever in his defense?
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  Speaker 6: I should merely like to ask the prosecution one question,
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  Speaker 6: Your Lordship.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: Has the prosecution found the bodies?
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  Speaker 7: Well....
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  Speaker 11: The prisoner wishes to know if the prosecution has yet
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  Speaker 11: produced the bodies of the alleged victims of the crime
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  Speaker 11: for which he is on trial.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, Your Lordship, we have not. That is all.
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  Speaker 6: To kill them had been my plan, my intention, naturally.
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  Speaker 6: But not in the usual stupid way such things are done,
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  Speaker 6: where men gamble their own lives against the lives of those.
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  Speaker 4: Whom they destroy.
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  Speaker 6: Every faculty of my intelligence revolted against such a thought.
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  Speaker 6: And so for me the gambler's risk was needless. So
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  Speaker 6: I had planned it. It was therefore without fear or
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  Speaker 6: question that I stood before the court to hear the verdict, which,
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  Speaker 6: in all the writing of it, I had contrived.
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  Speaker 4: Against myself.
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  Speaker 11: John Forsyth, the court has given most careful consideration to
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  Speaker 11: the fact that the bodies of the named victims have
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  Speaker 11: not been presented to this court as due evidence and
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  Speaker 11: a surety of murder, a fact which admittedly must alter
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  Speaker 11: the circumstances of guilt. But this Crown Court, no matter
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  Speaker 11: how deeply it desires to aid you, cannot but recognize
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  Speaker 11: the fact that you have allowed every shred of evidence
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  Speaker 11: and element to point to you as a cold-blooded killer.
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  Speaker 11: Under such circumstances, question me. though they may be, I
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  Speaker 11: can do only as the king's law directs me to do,
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  Speaker 11: tempered with the mercy of his majesty's court. I hereby
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  Speaker 11: sentence you to no more than 20 and no less
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  Speaker 11: than 10 years at hard labor for the suspected and
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  Speaker 11: willful murders of your wife, one Pamela Felice Forsyth and
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  Speaker 11: one Raymond Elton Tillotson. May God protect the crown and
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  Speaker 11: the jurisprudence of this court of his royal majesty.
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  Speaker 6: Ten to twenty years. It was perhaps a bit more
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  Speaker 6: than I expected, but I was content. And it may
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  Speaker 6: be that there was even the trace of a smile
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  Speaker 6: upon my lips as I left the courtroom.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly it was justified, if only by the looks of
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  Speaker 4: awe and admiration turned in my direction by the spectators.
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  Speaker 6: Clearly, they recognized my genius, and I knew they were
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  Speaker 6: thinking of the countless lesser men who had failed in
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  Speaker 6: their efforts to hide even one dead body, whereas I,
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  Speaker 6: apparently without effort, had successfully hidden two.
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  Speaker 5: For Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you a star, Paul Henry,
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  Speaker 5: in The Angel of Death by Alan Cameron. Roma Wines'
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  Speaker 5: presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Between the acts of Suspense, this is Truman Bradley for
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  Speaker 2: Roma Wines. With the holiday excitement over, most of us
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  Speaker 5: And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage
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  Speaker 5: Paul Henry as John Forsythe in The Angel of Death.
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  Speaker 5: Play well calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 4: It was thus that.
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  Speaker 6: I began my prison term and my association with William Waters,
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  Speaker 6: a sallow-faced, ill-favored little man who was to be my
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  Speaker 6: chief source of amusement and mental exercise forever. for a
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  Speaker 6: long time to come, and to illustrate still further the
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  Speaker 6: inevitable triumph of the higher intellect over all obstacles and surroundings.
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  Speaker 7: So, you're the great John Forsythe, eh?
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  Speaker 4: You've heard of me, then?
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  Speaker 7: Not half I haven't. The luckiest beggar that ever cheated
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  Speaker 7: the young man.
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  Speaker 3: Luck?
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  Speaker 4: There is no such thing as luck.
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  Speaker 10: No?
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  Speaker 7: Now is it your sit in here safe and sound,
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  Speaker 7: and out as free as air in 15 or 20 years,
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  Speaker 7: instead of stretching your neck at the end of a rope, eh?
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  Speaker 4: I'm here because I choose to be here, that is all.
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  Speaker 7: Because you choose to be? Tell me, poor son, just
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  Speaker 7: between the two of us, how did you do it?
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  Speaker 4: By using my brains.
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  Speaker 7: There's many another tried that before and been caught up with.
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  Speaker 6: Simply because they did not really have any brains to
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  Speaker 6: start with.
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  Speaker 7: No, it's luck, I tell you. Bad luck, like mine.
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  Speaker 7: You're the worst bit of luck that ever ruined a
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  Speaker 7: man's life.
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  Speaker 4: If you wish to call it that, why not?
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  Speaker 7: It was like what happened to you in a way.
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  Speaker 7: The sweetheart, Agnes her name was, with the biggest, bluest eyes. Oh,
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  Speaker 7: the prettiest little thing you'd ever hope to see.
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  Speaker 4: And you killed her?
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  Speaker 7: I didn't mean to. It was the usual, you know.
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  Speaker 7: I'd caught her dead to rights, but she laughed at me.
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  Speaker 7: That was the trouble. Threw it in me face, she did.
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  Speaker 7: Next thing I knew, something snapped. When me head cleared,
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  Speaker 7: I was sitting on the floor beside her. Crying like
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  Speaker 7: a baby. And her lying there with her pretty blue
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  Speaker 7: eyes tearing out of her head and her pretty mouth
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  Speaker 7: all twisted. Red marks there on her throat. The marks
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  Speaker 7: of the two very hands where I'd strangled the life
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  Speaker 7: out of her.
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  Speaker 4: You weren't unlucky. You were stupid. You killed her without
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  Speaker 4: planning it. And what did you do with the body?
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  Speaker 7: Cemented her into the wall of the cellar, and the
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  Speaker 7: bloke next door had a gas heater, exploded and blew
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  Speaker 7: out the old ruddy wall between us, it did. By
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  Speaker 7: the time I got home, there was firemen and bobbies
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  Speaker 7: all over the place, and there was Agnes, what was
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  Speaker 7: left of her, lying right out in the middle of
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  Speaker 7: the cellar floor for all the world to see.
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  Speaker 6: The truly intelligent man foresees every possibility.
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  Speaker 4: And guards against you.
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  Speaker 7: Who could? Who could foresee a thing like that?
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  Speaker 4: I could.
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  Speaker 7: You could.
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  Speaker 6: I stand before you as the living proof of it.
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  Speaker 6: In ten or fifteen years, I shall be free. Because
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  Speaker 6: I'm intelligent. Whereas you will rot and die here because
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  Speaker 6: you are stupid.
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  Speaker 7: Pretty clever, ain't you? Know just about everything there is
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  Speaker 7: to know, don't you? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: Not everything. But quite a lot of things. For instance,
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  Speaker 4: I know something about the cough of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: What about it?
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  Speaker 6: The color of your skin, the look about your eyes,
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  Speaker 6: the way you breathe. I hope you're not afraid to die, Waters.
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  Speaker 7: Rubbish. What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of retribution, Waters?
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 6: The inevitable fate that pursues and at last destroys the
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  Speaker 6: criminal mind. Vengeance, you might call it.
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  Speaker 7: Ah, rot. You don't think anything's going to happen to
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  Speaker 7: you or me, do you?
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  Speaker 4: Not to me, Waters.
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  Speaker 6: For the intelligent man foresees and prevents even that. But
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  Speaker 6: to you, Waters, most certainly to you.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, indeed? And who's going to do all this?
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  Speaker 6: He's known by various names, Waters, but best known as
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  Speaker 6: the Angel of Death.
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  Speaker 4: The Retribution of the Angel of Death.
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  Speaker 6: Absurd, wasn't it? But a most purposeful absurdity. For the
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  Speaker 6: intellectual stimulus so necessary... to remaining mentally alert during the
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  Speaker 6: prison years ahead.
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  Speaker 4: was here delivered into my hand. An experiment. And one
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  Speaker 4: almost impossible under any other conditions. And William Waters would
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  Speaker 4: be my guinea pig.
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  Speaker 6: An experiment to determine just how far a man might succeed.
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  Speaker 4: through sheer superiority of intelligence... breaking.
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  Speaker 6: Down and destroying the mind and the body of another.
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  Speaker 6: But a simple power of suggestion. I suggested nothing directly.
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  Speaker 6: Merely a word here, a glance there. Drops of water
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  Speaker 6: wearing away the stone.
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  Speaker 7: I've got a fever again tonight, haven't I, John?
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  Speaker 4: A touch, perhaps, but that is all.
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  Speaker 7: My head feels hot. Why, does that blasted cough, what
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  Speaker 7: does it?
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  Speaker 4: No, no.
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  Speaker 6: You mustn't worry about it. It's every very, very bad
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  Speaker 6: for people with your condition to worry.
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  Speaker 7: What condition? What condition, John? Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Why nothing?
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  Speaker 6: People with a cough like yours, people who feel, well,
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  Speaker 6: you know, indisposed.
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  Speaker 4: That's all.
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  Speaker 7: Oh. What's that book you're reading lately?
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  Speaker 4: Just a book, a scientific book that I got from
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  Speaker 4: the prison library.
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  Speaker 7: What sort of a scientific book?
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  Speaker 4: Journal book on medicine, things like that.
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me see it.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, give it here.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't understand.
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  Speaker 7: Give it here.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, please, give it back to me. You wouldn't be interested.
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  Speaker 7: Oh. You had it open in this place here, didn't you?
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  Speaker 7: This is what you was reading, ain't it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yes, among other things, but.
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  Speaker 7: Tuberculosis. Is that what I got, John?
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  Speaker 4: Tuberculosis? Don't be silly. There's nothing seriously wrong with you.
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  Speaker 7: John, you've got to tell me. You've got to tell... No.
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to die.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going to die. If you take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 7: Why should it come to me? I've always been healthy.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not old yet.
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  Speaker 4: Of course you are not. You're just imagining things.
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  Speaker 7: Imagining things?
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  Speaker 4: You're worrying too much, that's all.
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  Speaker 7: What makes you think I'm worried?
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes, you know, when you're asleep. Tell me, do you
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  Speaker 4: ever have dreams?
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  Speaker 7: What sort of dreams?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, about the past or.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you mean... You mean about her?
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  Speaker 6: Yes. Do you ever dream you see her lying there
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  Speaker 6: on the floor with her eyes bulging out of her
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  Speaker 6: head and her mouth all twisted and... Your tongue all
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: black and swollen.
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  Speaker 7: John, don't, don't stop it.
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  Speaker 4: And your fingers digging.
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  Speaker 7: Into her throat. Stop it, stop it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: What's the matter here, eh? He seems somewhat disturbed in
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: his mind this evening, God. Oh, he's mourned, eh? Oh,
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: that reminds me.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor said we was to try to prevail on him
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  Speaker 5: to get out of his bunk tomorrow and.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Get outside, get a little exercise and fresh air. Oh,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: you tell him, eh? Yes, sir.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: What was you too much about?
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: He was just telling me what the doctor said about you. What? Well,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: he wants you to stay in your bunk and get
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: plenty of rest. The time was drawing near, I knew.
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: The time for what I had planned as the culmination
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: of my experiments. Waters was having periods of definite delirium,
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: but I waited. I waited for them to.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Become more pronounced.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: And then, one night, when I'd listened to him tossing
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: and muttering for hours in his bunker, I.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Crossed over in the darkness.
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: No, no, no, wait, wait, no, it ain't time yet.
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: I don't have to go yet. No, no.
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  Speaker 4: William Waters.
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  Speaker 7: William Waters.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I've come for you, William Waters.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: What?
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: She sent me, William. She sent me. With her eyes
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: staring out of her head. With her black, swollen tongue.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: I'm the angel of death.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll kill you! I'll
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: kill you! I'll kill you!
• 22:49
  Speaker 12: I'll kill you!
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: What's going on in here? I said we'll quiet you.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I had to hit him. The man is out of
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: his mind. He thinks I'm some angel of death or something.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: Where are you? Come on now. Up on your feet.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Come on now then, Waters.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: Now what's the matter with you, eh? For God's sake.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: You.
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: It's you what's done this to me. I told you,
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: it's you.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: It was out of his head.
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: It's you what's done it to me.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I see it now.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Come on, you're coming for me.
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: I'll get out of here with this.
• 23:39
  Speaker 14: It was interesting while it lasted. And I've always believed
• 23:42
  Speaker 14: that given a little more time... could have ended my
• 23:46
  Speaker 14: experiment successfully. But I had other plans to make now.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Plans for the day when I would be free. And
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: at last it came. At last I was walking away
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: from the prison gate a free man. Now began my search.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: It was not difficult.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: It led me at last to Paris, to a small apartment,
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: where I went tonight, December 31st, New Year's Eve.
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: Yes? Yes?
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Good evening. Oh, good evening. Did you wish to see someone?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Don't you recognize me?
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: Well, I do, of course, but are you a friend
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: of Pam's?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I am indeed.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Who is it, darling? It's a friend of yours, dear.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: A friend of both of you.
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: John. Yes.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: In fact, your husband, my dear, and Raymond's best friend. John,
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: it's been 15 years, yes. You only returned to Paris recently,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: didn't you? Yes.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: A short time ago.
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: And you never knew that I was convicted and sentenced
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: to prison for your double murder, did you?
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: Murder?
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, that was quite as I planned it. I knew
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: where you were, but the authorities did not.
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: John!
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: But perhaps you have heard of a curious legal technicality
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: which provides that a man cannot be convicted twice for
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: the same crime.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: So you see, I've already paid for your murders. And
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: now I've come to collect An ancient death. Put down
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: that gun. I then walked calmly from their rooms. I
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: made no effort to hide my face, my trail, or
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: my identity.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: I can now defy every element in life and in law.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: After 15 years, I've committed the crimes for which I've
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: already paid my debt to society.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: I shall mail this letter to the police, who may
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: give it to the newspapers, who, whoever wants it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: Although it is now a matter of indifference to me
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: if the world remarks upon my cleverness or my patience.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: For my life is complete. No man has ever known
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: such happiness. John Forsythe.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, come in, Madame Leclerc.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I have a letter now ready. I wish you to
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: mail for me.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: I've come for you, John Forsythe.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Waters.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: I'm not Waters any longer.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: How did you get out?
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: They said I was insane, so I hadn't been responsible
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: when I killed her. And then they said I was cured,
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: sane again. And then they let me out. But there
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: was one thing they never knew. They never knew who
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: I really was.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about?
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: That's why I've come for you, John Forsythe. I am
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: the chosen messenger of an eye of power. Look here, Waters. Die,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: John Forster.
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: And the story ends with a newspaper clipping. Let me
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: read it to you. Paris, January 1st. This gay metropolis
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: spent one of its quietest New Year's Eves in recent years.
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: In all greater Paris, there were only two recorded deaths
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: by violence, both of which, by a strange coincidence, occurred
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: within a few yards of each other. The first was
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: the fatal shooting by an unknown assailant of an Englishman,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: John Forsythe. The second victim, unidentified, had apparently leaped from
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: a window or roof of the same dwelling occupied by Forsythe.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Police were at a loss to explain a weird black
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: silk robe and cape worn by the man. Jean-Yves Leclerc,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: concierge of the building, alleges to have heard a voice
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: repeating an English phrase, I am the angel of death,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: just before the suicidal leap. However, this can hardly have
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: any bearing on the case, since the said phrase was
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: undoubtedly uttered by New Year's revelers in the neighborhood.
• 28:16
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