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Suspense - "Green-Eyed Monster" (Old Time Radio, 1947) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Lloyd Nolan stars as Michael Dawson in suspense's Green Eyed Monster.
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  Speaker 1: On April first, nineteen forty seven, CBS presented episode seven
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: of the series. Dawson receives a call from police his automobile,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: believed stolen, has been recovered. As he tries to maintain
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: his composure. The matter reaches into his marriage to Judy
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: played by Kathy Lewis, and his dealings with insurance agent
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Tommy Castle played by Wally Maher against the background of
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  Speaker 1: unsolved local stabbings. Joseph Kerns appears as Sergeant O'Connor in
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: a drama written by Elliot Lewis and Robert L. Richards
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  Speaker 3: And Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, Roma Wines bringing mister Lloyd Nolan in Green Eyed Monster,
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  Speaker 4: a suspense play produced, edited and directed for Roma Wines
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  Speaker 4: by William Spear.
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  Speaker 2: Lloyd Nolan in a remarkable tale of suspense.
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  Speaker 3: I got to sleep pretty late. I'd been reading a
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  Speaker 3: book about the Civil War, and I got interested in
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  Speaker 3: the section on Gettysburg. There was some material there. I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't known about sleep very well, even after I had
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  Speaker 3: turned off the bed light. You know, when you're accustomed
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  Speaker 3: to having someone else in the house, it's the sort
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  Speaker 3: of an uneasy feeling to know that you're alone. I
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  Speaker 3: remember hearing the clock in the front room strike four.
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  Speaker 3: Then I must have fallen asleep. I was dreaming, as
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  Speaker 3: I recall it, about a very bloody battle between the
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  Speaker 3: Blue and the Gray. When the alarm clock went off,
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  Speaker 3: it was set for seven, because I knew and had
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  Speaker 3: a busy day ahead. It took me a little while
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  Speaker 3: to realize what it was because in the dream at
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  Speaker 3: that moment I had invented a bell to scare the
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  Speaker 3: opposing forces right off the fielder. It is nice quiet.
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  Speaker 3: Then I lay warm in bed for a while, trying
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  Speaker 3: to remember my dream and not succeeding. When I did
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  Speaker 3: remember that I was alone in the house, that Margaret
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  Speaker 3: wasn't there to wake me up. If I had dozed
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  Speaker 3: off for just a few more minutes. I'd just gotten
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  Speaker 3: out of bed when the telephone made a loud, early
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  Speaker 3: morning noise. I shoved my feet halfway into some slippers
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  Speaker 3: and muttered down the hallway, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry to disturb you. Is this Michael Dawson?
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  Speaker 3: A little early, but I think so.
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  Speaker 5: Do you drive a Pontiac convertible license number nine nine
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  Speaker 5: four seven nine?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Where's your car now, mister Dawson?
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  Speaker 3: What's right in front of the house? What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Will you look and see what's there?
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  Speaker 3: Say? Who is this police department s car? Oh? Well
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  Speaker 3: just a minute, all right, thought softly, early in the
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  Speaker 3: morning for this to happen softly, hard to think clearly
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  Speaker 3: when you haven't had a cup of coffee or a cigarette.
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  Speaker 3: I walked to the front window and my car wasn't there,
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  Speaker 3: And I went back to the porn, still thinking how
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  Speaker 3: hard it is to think clearly when it's early in
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  Speaker 3: the morning. Uh, hello, yeah, right here, mister Dawson, it's gone.
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  Speaker 3: The car I just.
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  Speaker 4: Wanted to be sure your car was stolen last night,
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  Speaker 4: mister Dawson. It's pretty badly banged up.
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  Speaker 3: You insured well, I think so, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I suggest you report the theft of the insurance company
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  Speaker 4: and come down to the police garage or the.
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  Speaker 5: Pink owner's slip.
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  Speaker 3: Oh all right, I'll be down as soon as I can.
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  Speaker 3: I got dressed, make coffee, drank it, had a cigarette
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  Speaker 3: and I called Tommy Castle, my insurance man. I told
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  Speaker 3: him that the Pontiac had been stolen and what the
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  Speaker 3: cop had told me to do, and he said he'd
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  Speaker 3: drive me down to the garage. I had the pink
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  Speaker 3: slip on the desk and I took it with me
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  Speaker 3: with a quarter to eight when Tommy picked me up
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  Speaker 3: in front of the house and we drove down to
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  Speaker 3: the police station and started walking around to the garage.
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  Speaker 6: You don't need to worry, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: You're very well covered. Now, aren't you glad that you
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  Speaker 3: took all the insurance? I recommend it. Well, I suppose so,
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  Speaker 3: because you're very well covered. Well, that's swelled. But if
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  Speaker 3: it's completely wrecked, where am I going to get another car?
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  Speaker 5: Ah?
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  Speaker 6: They can probably fix it like now when it won't
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  Speaker 6: be long before the market will be flooded with new cars,
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  Speaker 6: mister Dawson.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Sargian O'Connor cars.
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  Speaker 3: Over there, mister Dawson. Where Oh yeah, oh, I see
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  Speaker 3: pretty smashed up. Now let's look it over very closely. Mike,
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  Speaker 3: what a mess. Well, it serves me right for leaving
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  Speaker 3: it out in the street all night. Never would have
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  Speaker 3: happened to my wife had been home. Yeah, Margaret is
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  Speaker 3: more thorough than you are, Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Is missus Dawson a blonde about five feet three?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah? Why do you know her?
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  Speaker 7: Is that your wife, mister Dawson.
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  Speaker 3: Stuffed in the trunk of the car was Margaret. She
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  Speaker 3: was wearing the same dress she'd had on the day Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: It was the day she'd gone to visit her mother.
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  Speaker 3: The whole scene was very clear, I can remember easily.
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  Speaker 3: Her face was smudged, and I thought she wouldn't like
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  Speaker 3: to be seen with her face dirty, and her clothes
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  Speaker 3: were badly rumpled, and just below the left shoulder blade
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  Speaker 3: sticking up straight from her back, was the handle of
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  Speaker 3: a brass letter open and I started to weave a little. Then, hey,
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  Speaker 3: you are right, mister Darton. My easy. Come over here
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  Speaker 3: and sit down. I'm I'm all right, please, I'm all right.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I told you that way.
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  Speaker 3: But we had reason reasons. Well, it seems to me
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  Speaker 3: that you could have been a little who wanted to
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  Speaker 3: kill Margaret. She had a few little foods, the same
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  Speaker 3: as all of us who were on a kill for them.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, looks like our local jack laripper again stabbingly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh general setup, you never did anyone anyhow.
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  Speaker 7: You better take him home in a minute, in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Let him sit here, a poor little blood bug. I
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  Speaker 3: did that pretty well, don't you think, because I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: surprised at all. I'd planned the whole morning. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: think it would all happen that early, but I knew
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  Speaker 3: it would happen. You see, I had stolen my car
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  Speaker 3: and left it wreck for the police to find, and
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  Speaker 3: in the trunk of my car, I'd stuffed the body
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  Speaker 3: of my wife, Margaret, who I had stabbed in the back.
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  Speaker 3: At four point thirty Tuesday afternoon, more suspense.
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  Speaker 4: And now Roma wines bring back to our Hollywood sound stage.
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  Speaker 4: Lloyd Nolan as Michael Dawson and Kathy Lewis as his
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  Speaker 4: wife Judy in Green Eyed Monster, A tale well calculated
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  Speaker 4: to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 3: I was, of course the prime suspect and the murder
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  Speaker 3: of my wife Margaret. The only thing was that there
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  Speaker 3: had been a series of crimes in my neighborhood during
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of months, crimes that all followed as
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  Speaker 3: general pattern. And since I was clever enough to fix
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  Speaker 3: Margaret's murder so that the death was as neat as
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  Speaker 3: the others had all been, it was decided at the
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  Speaker 3: coroner's inquest that the murder had been committed by a
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  Speaker 3: person or persons unknown, by which they meant that Jack
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  Speaker 3: the Ripper character that was running around loose, and I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't held. I waited a decent week after it was
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  Speaker 3: all over, and then I called Judy, My Judy. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: she was so beautiful. She was tall and brunette and
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  Speaker 3: willowy and beautiful, with the loveliest green eyes you ever saw.
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  Speaker 3: She answered the phone right away and said she'd be
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  Speaker 3: right over. Come in, Honey, you're the most beautiful thing
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  Speaker 3: in the world.
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  Speaker 8: I'll bet you say that.
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  Speaker 3: Come here.
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  Speaker 8: N Really, everybody in the street will see it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Say where'd you get that dress?
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  Speaker 8: And all that gave it to me? It didn't fit
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  Speaker 8: her anymore mm.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm fits you than you? Come on it in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 8: Have you a new recipe for poached a No?
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  Speaker 3: I want to tell you something, A story, Mike sore story,
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  Speaker 3: A beautiful story about a lovely brunette and a guy
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  Speaker 3: who's nuts about it.
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  Speaker 8: Who could you mean?
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  Speaker 3: Come Herennie?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you're very friendly today.
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  Speaker 3: Man, you shouldn't have won that dress.
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  Speaker 8: This is the way it affects you hour at all time.
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  Speaker 3: Have you missed me? Have you missed me a lot?
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  Speaker 8: Actually?
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  Speaker 3: You love me, don't you?
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  Speaker 8: Of course I love you. You're rehearsing for your bar exam.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
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  Speaker 8: Sit down there, alrighty, I'll sit down here.
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  Speaker 3: Cup coffee, a cup of coff okay, hey, yeah, don't
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  Speaker 3: you want some? H No, I have something to tell you.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry about your wife.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was quite a blow of that. What
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  Speaker 3: do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 8: I thought you said you loved me?
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  Speaker 3: Well I do.
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  Speaker 8: Then you aren't too sad about Margaret, are you.
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  Speaker 3: Well? That's a shame that she had to end up
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  Speaker 3: that way. You know how those things are.
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  Speaker 8: Give me a kiss and stop talking so much.
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  Speaker 3: New perfume? Where did you get it? Where did you
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  Speaker 3: get it? Well?
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  Speaker 8: Really, do you own me or something?
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  Speaker 3: I want to know where you got that perfume?
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  Speaker 8: Sit out and relax. What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 3: I have to slap your face.
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  Speaker 8: You do, and I'll slap you right back. I love you,
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  Speaker 8: of course you do.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what I want to know. I get jealous naturally.
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  Speaker 3: Do you love me?
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  Speaker 8: Sure?
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  Speaker 3: You don't act like you love me.
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  Speaker 8: Do you want me to gaze at you with great
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  Speaker 8: fawn eyes?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, of course not.
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  Speaker 8: What do you want?
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  Speaker 3: I want you to tell me that you love me?
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because?
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  Speaker 8: Go on?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've proven how much I want you. I I
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  Speaker 3: think that you should return the feeling you have.
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  Speaker 8: What proven how much you want me?
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  Speaker 3: By telling you over and over again that I love you?
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  Speaker 3: By loving you more than Margaret? Why?
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  Speaker 8: By killing Margaret? What you heard me?
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  Speaker 3: What makes you think I killed marm didn't you? Now? Look, Judy,
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  Speaker 3: this is a pretty tough way to treat didn't you. Yes?
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  Speaker 8: And I love you? Kiss me, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: She loved me, She really loved me. That's all I
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  Speaker 3: cared about all I could think about. She was so wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: She just we got a little house in Glendale and
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  Speaker 3: were married out there when nobody knew us. And then
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  Speaker 3: that first Steven, in the first hour almost that we
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: were alone together in our own home, somebody came to
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  Speaker 3: the door, and I was Tommy Cassley barged, and he
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  Speaker 3: talked and talked about it, and yours too, Missus Dawson.
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  Speaker 6: That's why, Oh, that's why I feel it's my privilege, yes,
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  Speaker 6: my duty to talk to you this way. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 6: the last one in the world wants to stir up
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  Speaker 6: any unhappy memories. But well, if you remember, Mike, I
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  Speaker 6: urged you repeatedly to take out a joint life insurance
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  Speaker 6: policy on yourself and on your well that is the farmer.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, thank you, thanks, Well you know what happened.
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  Speaker 8: What happened, mister Castle, Why.
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  Speaker 3: He never took out the insurance and so when Margaret
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  Speaker 3: when the I mean, she simply wasn't.
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  Speaker 8: In short, maybe that's just as well, mister Castle.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm afraid I don't follow you. Missus.
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  Speaker 9: Well, Mike had collected any insurance when Margaret was killed.
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  Speaker 9: Those silly policemen you know how they are. They might
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  Speaker 9: have thought Mike had for reasons.
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  Speaker 6: Well, as I was saying, now you two are just married,
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  Speaker 6: a whole new life ahead for you, and now's the
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  Speaker 6: time to think about the future. Now listen, I don't
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  Speaker 6: like this whole conversation. This is no way to talk
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  Speaker 6: to a man on his wedding But Mike, that's where
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  Speaker 6: you're wrong, my boy. This is just the way to
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  Speaker 6: talk to a man on his wedding day. Now, can
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  Speaker 6: I talk to you for just a second, Mike Pidon, No, no, no, please,
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  Speaker 6: please don't go missus Dwson.
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  Speaker 3: This is let me take a secon now, lest Tommy,
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  Speaker 3: this is our wedding. You ought assignment application on Judy's life?
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  Speaker 3: Why do you know how many women have killed in
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  Speaker 3: automobile accidents every year? And here here in Los.
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  Speaker 2: Angeles, this, this Jack the Ripper character only kills women,
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  Speaker 2: you know why?
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  Speaker 3: All right, let me sign it and please Tommy.
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  Speaker 6: Why sure, sure, there we are. Of course you have
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  Speaker 6: to take a physical examination, but that will be nothing
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  Speaker 6: to you, a youngster like you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, folks, I can't tell you how much this
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  Speaker 3: is going to mean to you. And what did I
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  Speaker 3: do with my hair. Oh there it is there. I
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  Speaker 3: can't tell you how much this is.
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  Speaker 8: Are you going straight back into town?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, yes, yes I am. Anything I can do.
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  Speaker 9: I think I'll ride in with you if you don't mind. Well,
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Mike, I forgot to tell you. An old
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  Speaker 9: girlfriend of mine carmunidations in town just the one night,
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  Speaker 9: and I told her i'd see it.
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  Speaker 8: JUDI I know, but just one of those things. Dear,
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  Speaker 8: Are you ready in mister Castle, Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Ready, sure, sure, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 8: Don't worry, darling, don't wait up.
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  Speaker 3: I just stood there. I didn't know what to say,
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  Speaker 3: what to do my wedding night. I moved the curtain
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  Speaker 3: aside and watched her go down the walk with Tommy.
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  Speaker 3: She was holding onto his arm real tight, too tight.
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  Speaker 8: She smiled up at him.
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  Speaker 3: I went into the living room tried to read Sandberg's Lincoln.
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  Speaker 3: It's quite a book, five big vinemes ah, but I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't read. By midnight, I was in a blind rage.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to get in the car and go
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  Speaker 3: look for it. I was going to call a police.
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  Speaker 3: And later I was in a cold sweat fear that
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  Speaker 3: something might have happened to her. And then back to
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  Speaker 3: a blind, scalding jealousy again. Finney had got to be
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  Speaker 3: three thirty in the morning. Ha, Tommy, is that you, Tommy? Ha?
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh my.
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  Speaker 6: I just came in.
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  Speaker 5: I heard the phone ringing and ran up.
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  Speaker 3: The stairs cover a little out of bread with Judy.
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  Speaker 5: Huh, Judy, I mean the missus. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't she? Where did you see her last?
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  Speaker 5: Why? I let her out of Sunsetting Western?
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  Speaker 3: And that was about No, you did, did you?
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  Speaker 5: Of course I did? Good gosh, Mikey, you don't think.
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  Speaker 8: That I oh, Darling, I told you not to wait up.
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  Speaker 3: It's four o'clock in the more.
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  Speaker 8: I know, Darling.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, poor Ethel wanted to talk about her troubles.
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  Speaker 9: I just couldn't bad to leave my coffee.
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  Speaker 3: Poor Ethel. This was our wedding night, Darling.
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  Speaker 8: Why is this sheet? And you're trembling?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I amn't wondering about at this hour and
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  Speaker 3: this this Jack the Ripper character?
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  Speaker 8: Is that?
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  Speaker 3: Where have you been? What have you been doing?
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  Speaker 8: I just told you, Ethel, dar.
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  Speaker 3: Listen if you ever do a thing like this again.
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  Speaker 8: Now, Darling, you listen to me. You're not going to
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  Speaker 8: try to run my life for me? Are you your life?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about our life. I'm thinking about this, Mike.
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  Speaker 9: That's what I'm thinking about our life. And that's not
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  Speaker 9: all I'm thinking about it, and thinking about Margaret.
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  Speaker 3: Margaret.
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  Speaker 9: You mustn't be like this, darling. You must promise me
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  Speaker 9: not ever again, because I don't think.
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  Speaker 3: Margaret would like it, because she couldn't have made it
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  Speaker 3: much plainer, could she. And that's the way it was.
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  Speaker 3: From then on, my life was a nightmare. Someone you're
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  Speaker 3: crazy in love with, crazy, jealous of wondering where they are,
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  Speaker 3: who they're with, not able to do a thing about it.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Sometimes I'd think it was getting better, it was going
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: to be all right. She'd stay at home for days
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: of the stretcher, a couple of weeks, and then it
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: would begin all over again. She'd just take the car
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: and go always some girlfriend, she said, girlfriend. Oh, finally,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I guess I did go a little crazy. I have
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: to know one way or the other. So one night,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: when she was getting ready to go out, I went
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: to the garage and jimmy the lock on the trunk
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: compartment of the car so she couldn't be snap shut again.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: And I crawled in pulled a bit down after. It
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: must have been crazy, because it never even crossed my
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: mind until I was lying in there, all scrunched up
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: in the dark, about the last time anybody had been
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: in there, I mean Margaret. She drove for quite a while.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: It almost seemed.
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  Speaker 2: As though she was.
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  Speaker 3: Just cruising around, I mean, not heading for any place
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: in particular. Finally she stopped. I heard her get out
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: of the car and go in somewhere. When I was
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: sure she had gone, I cracked the lid of the
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: trunk open and looked out. It was dark. She was
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: going into a crummy little cafe. She was in there
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a long time, and when she came out there was
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: somebody with her. Was a girl.
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  Speaker 8: I'm driving home. It's kind of a long way. I
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: couldn't get a crafty. I don't lie god get in.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: So it was a girl cry this time anyway, And
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: then the car was stopping. I cracked the lid of
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: the trunk again. It was a nice knife. The convertible
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: top was down, and I heard it all. But this
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: isn't a way.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: Why are we stopping. You'll find out. Get out, get out,
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: don't argue, get out. Hey, this is your idea of
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: a joke or something.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: All I can say. As the car roared off, I
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: had a glimpse of it line there by the road,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: the girl's body with a knife in the back, dead.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: After the car was back in the garage, it seemed
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: as though I lay in that dark trunk for hours, shaking,
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: trembling all over. After a while, I crawled out of
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: the trunk, all cramped and stiff, and went into the house.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: And there she was in bed. She looked at me
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: with those half closed eyes, those lovely, lovely green eyes,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: and then she turned over with a little sighn and
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: was fast asleep. As I lay there in bed, staring
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: into the darkness, the only answer that seemed to make
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: any sense was that I was losing my mind because
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: of what I'd done to Margaret. Maybe, and I'd imagine
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: the whole thing for the next morning. There it all
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: was in the papers, more murder pictures being strikes it again,
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: being that was my Judy, my lovely, wonderful Judy, the
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: woman I was in love with. From then on I
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: watched her like a hawk day and night. I never
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: let her out of my sight. I hardly slept it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: All I did things like letting the air out of
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: the tires so she couldn't use the car, like hiding
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: everything in the whole house that was sharp, a pointed knives, eyes,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: picked scissors, let her opens and Judy, she was wonderful, calm, serene,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: apparently without the faintest idea what was in my mind.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I watched her, and I began to think what I
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: had before. Somehow it must have been a terrible mistake.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: That was when I was thinking last night, I.
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: Brought you some tea and Malvato's Darling, you're looking.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Better, I think, thanks, Thanks, Judy.
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: By the way, whatever happened to that letter opener, the
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: new one we used to have on the desk? The
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: what the letter opener?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: What do you want it for?
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: Open letters?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Suley?
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: First of the month. There's a stack of bills in.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: There that high you're you're not thinking of going out?
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: You don't know where that letter opener is?
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: No, no, I don't.
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: I guess I can find something else. It will do
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: just as well.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I had the letter open, of course, but I didn't
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: tell her. I didn't dare I could feel it inside
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: my inside pocket as I lay there on the couch
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: in the den, where I could watch the front hall
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and the living room door. I heard her fussing around
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: upstairs for a while, and then she came down and
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I heard the back door close. She was going to
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: the garage. As I got up, I could feel the
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: letter opener pressing against my side. It was a terrible
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: pain in my head. I don't know exactly what happened
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: after that. And the next thing, the phone was ringing,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: and it was morning. I got up off the couch
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: and I stumbled out into the hall to answer. I'm
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: always groggy in the morning, but before I've had my
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: coffee and a cigarette. But this morning it was as
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: though I'd been drugged something I couldn't think at all. Hello, Hello,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: mister Dawson.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Michael Dawson.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you drive.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: A Pontiac convertible license number nine nine R four seven nine.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, I think that's a number.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: Why, well, we've got your car, mister Dawson. Your insurance agent,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: mister Castle's down here already. Oh yeah, we'd like you
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: to come down here right away and bring your pink
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: owners slip.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Oh wait, who is this?
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: This is the police? The bottom.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: I was still pretty much in a bog. When I
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: got down there, I couldn't quite figure things out. My
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: car must have been stolen again, really stolen this time wrecked,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I suppose. And where was Where was Judy? Maybe she'd
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: wreck it or maybe the quarter. No, but then they'd
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: have told me about it. Must just ask about the car.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Tell me he met me outside. He must have been
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: waiting for me.
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: How are you feeling?
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Oh? Man, I all right. I guess I'm figure in
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: for kind of a shock. It's pretty bad, pretty bad.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: Oh there he is now, mister daw Yes, I'm his wife.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Leeve.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Is that your car, mister Dawson.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, but it isn't right there. It doesn't seem
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: to be anything the matter with it at all.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Up the trunk when he sided, Yes, sir, she was.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Lying in there with her head twisted ron staring at
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: me with those lovely psychic green eyes. Dead Judy, mind Judy,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: and the letter opener was in her back. You come
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: around in a minute.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: You better get a snoga brain who probably want to
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: make a statement.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Now you are right now, man?
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure we can't pay the insurance, of course, you
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: know you understand that insurance, the life insurance on Judy
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: but I'll get your lawyer do anything I can.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Don't you think you're gonna need one, mister Dawson. I'll
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: take care of one accident, that's one thing, but two,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: two wives, both in your car. Now, there's your letter
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: opener with your fingerprints on it. It won't go, mister Dawson,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: not anymore. And then, of course there are all the others,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: seven of them that you've killed in the last three months.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: I kill now.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Now, mister Dawson, you're not going to give us any
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: trouble you.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm not going to give you any trouble.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: I guess I guess I killed her, all right, and
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I must have. I didn't kill the others, of course,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: but I confessed to them. I was glad to I'd
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: rather have them think that it was me than Judy,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: my beautiful green eyed Judy.
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: I've got lots of time to read. I'm almost through
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: the third volume now of that Life of Lincoln, only
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: two mile volumes to go. They're pretty long, pretty thick,
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: but I think I'll make it just about.
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: Suspend.
• 28:07
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• 28:15
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• 28:18
  Speaker 2: start of the evening, Lloyd Nolan, Lloyd, Ever since I
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: saw you and Lady in the lake, I've been wanting
• 28:23
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• 28:26
  Speaker 2: you know, talking and looking right at the lens as
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: if it were an individual.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Well, really, I enjoyed it, but it was a little tough.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Acting as easier when you're talking to another person and
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: sort of helps to watch his reactions, see his expressions
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: changed as you delivered the line. Here.
• 28:41
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• 28:44
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• 28:47
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• 28:55
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• 28:57
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• 28:59
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• 29:03
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• 29:07
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• 29:13
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• 29:17
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• 29:19
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• 29:23
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• 29:26
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• 29:39
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• 29:42
  Speaker 3: There's three very good reasons, Truman. Well, thank you, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: good night.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Lloyd Nolan appeared to the courtesy of twentieth Century Fox,
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: producers of the late George Appley. The night suspense play
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: was written by Ellie Lewis and Robert Richards. Next Thursday,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Same Time, you will hear mister Richard conty a star
• 30:01
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• 30:07
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• 30:31
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