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Suspense - "Beyond Reason" (Old Time Radio, 1948) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Peyton Carr has been killed in a hit-and-run, leaving his
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: estate to his three daughters, and his eldest, Vanjie, cannot
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: accept that the death was an accident. In suspense, beyond reason,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: the Carr family faces added pressure when Harry Newton, a
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: previously unknown business partner, takes an interest in the estate's
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: undeveloped property and in Vanjie herself. Robert Ryan plays Newton
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: with Ruth Warwick as Vanjie. Joan Banks, Peggy Weber, and
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Bill Johnstone are also heard. Devery Freeman wrote this hour-long
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  Speaker 1: CBS presentation produced by Anton M. Leder, first broadcast February 21, 1948,
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  Speaker 1: as episode 285. It was presented without a commercial sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: Suspense!
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  Speaker 3: Radio's outstanding theater of thrills brings you an hour, a full.
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  Speaker 4: 60 minutes of suspense.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, starring Mr. Robert Ryan and Miss Ruth Warwick in
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  Speaker 3: a play by Devery Freeman entitled Beyond Reason. Edited and
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  Speaker 3: directed by Anton M. Leder and produced by Robert Montgomery.
• 1:39
  Speaker 5: This is Robert Montgomery. For well over a year, on
• 1:43
  Speaker 5: the average of five times a week, my newsboy and
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  Speaker 5: I have engaged in the same spirited conversation. Each evening
• 1:50
  Speaker 5: I greet him with, uh, anything in the papers? And
• 1:54
  Speaker 5: each evening he answers with, no, same old stuff. Then
• 1:58
  Speaker 5: I spend part of the evening reading the chronicle of
• 2:00
  Speaker 5: the day's events, the same old stuff. And I learn
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: that the tensions in the world are greater or lesser
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  Speaker 5: than that some people want high taxes and some people
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  Speaker 5: want low, that some people are born and some are
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  Speaker 5: married and some are divorced and some are dead.
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  Speaker 4: Same old stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday a man walked out onto his front porch, lost
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  Speaker 5: his balance on the top step, and one minute later
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  Speaker 5: he was dead. An hour ago a wife in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
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  Speaker 5: went to the hospital. Ten minutes ago she became a mother.
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  Speaker 5: One cycle of life completed, another just beginning. and the
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  Speaker 5: newspaper will report them both, clearly, accurately, and without editorial comment.
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  Speaker 5: We can assume that in each of these homes, the
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  Speaker 5: old patterns of living are broken, and the new ones
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  Speaker 5: are in formation. But we can't know what happens next
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  Speaker 5: in the history of these two families. And these are
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  Speaker 5: very real stories that begin with birth or death. We
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  Speaker 5: have one for you today, a story entitled Beyond Reasons.
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  Speaker 4: And it began this way.
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  Speaker 5: At exactly 7.22 on the night of January 5th, Pinkton
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  Speaker 5: Carr reached the corner of Post and Stockton streets in
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  Speaker 5: downtown San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: He was feeling fine.
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  Speaker 5: He stopped for a moment to look at an attractive
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  Speaker 5: window display. And then, still looking back, he stepped off
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  Speaker 5: the curb.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, look out!
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  Speaker 2: No!
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  Speaker 7: You hit him! Stop! Stop!
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  Speaker 6: He's a run driver! Stop him! Oh, no, don't look! Oh,
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  Speaker 6: the poor man!
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  Speaker 7: Call an ambulance!
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  Speaker 6: Somebody call an ambulance! This guy's hurt bad! I saw it!
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  Speaker 2: I saw it happen! He just stepped off the curb!
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  Speaker 6: Somebody call an ambulance!
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  Speaker 2: Call an ambulance!
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  Speaker 6: Who is he? Do you know who is he?
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  Speaker 7: You mean, who was he?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, the poor man!
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  Speaker 5: Next day, the newspapers put it briefly and concisely in
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  Speaker 5: a small headline on page four. Businessman hit. Businessman hit
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  Speaker 5: run victim. You probably read it. Not very interesting, unless
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  Speaker 5: you knew him. The police were working on the case.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe one day soon they'd track down the car.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 5: It looked like just another one of those things, soon forgotten,
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  Speaker 5: over and done with. But a tragedy like that can
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  Speaker 5: be a beginning as well as an end. It can
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  Speaker 5: start a whole chain of events, generate a whole series
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  Speaker 5: of reactions. It can become the genesis of fear, especially
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  Speaker 5: in the mind as sensitive as the mind of Evangeline Carr,
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  Speaker 5: the eldest of three daughters.
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  Speaker 2: Vanjie Carr.
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  Speaker 4: Beautiful, lonely, susceptible.
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  Speaker 7: Daddy.
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  Speaker 6: Darling Daddy.
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  Speaker 8: Why did he have to die that way? How could
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  Speaker 8: such a thing have happened to him? Accidents like that
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  Speaker 8: don't happen to people like him.
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  Speaker 6: Not without some reason. It couldn't have been an accident.
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  Speaker 6: It couldn't have been. And who is this man? Harry Newton.
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  Speaker 8: This man has suddenly become so important in our lives.
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  Speaker 6: My father's business partner, they say? Oh, but my father
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  Speaker 6: never had a business partner. Never, I'm sure of that.
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  Speaker 9: He would have told me. But then, who is Harry Newton?
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  Speaker 10: He was a hard one to pin down in his car.
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  Speaker 10: Doesn't have a home, not even a permanent address. He
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  Speaker 10: just seems to drift around.
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  Speaker 6: Was he up here in San Francisco the night my
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  Speaker 6: father was killed?
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  Speaker 2: I checked that.
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  Speaker 10: No, he wasn't. But he was here that day. In fact,
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  Speaker 10: that's the day your father and he signed the papers that.
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  Speaker 2: Made them partners.
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  Speaker 6: That day? Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: That's the date on the contract. He left Frisco on
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  Speaker 10: the four o'clock plane. Accident happened about 7.30.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: He seems to be the promoter type. Somebody else always
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  Speaker 10: takes the risk.
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  Speaker 6: How could my father have made a man like that
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  Speaker 6: his partner?
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  Speaker 11: The contract is perfectly legal, Vanjie. He is your father's partner.
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  Speaker 6: But why?
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  Speaker 8: Why did Dad ever take him in? Dad contributed all
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  Speaker 8: the property. This man contributed nothing.
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  Speaker 11: Nothing but himself. Evidently, your father thought him a super salesman.
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  Speaker 11: You see, they'd planned to subdivide and sell the acreage
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  Speaker 11: here at Della Vista. And he's determined to go through
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  Speaker 11: with it. No, I'm afraid there's not much we can do.
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  Speaker 6: No, I suppose not.
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  Speaker 12: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 11: This is very trying for you and your sisters, I know.
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  Speaker 11: Perhaps when he comes up here, we can persuade him.
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  Speaker 6: He's coming here?
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  Speaker 4: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: To look the place over.
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  Speaker 4: You'd have to stay here quite a bit to get
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  Speaker 4: the work started.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, of course. I must have realized that.
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  Speaker 8: Only, I never really let myself think about how someday
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  Speaker 8: I'd have to.
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  Speaker 6: Meet him face to face.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Banji. Be careful. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: You don't trust him either, do you?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: I don't trust him either.
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  Speaker 2: Just an everyday accident.
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  Speaker 5: But it can be the beginning of many things. Especially
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  Speaker 5: when the dead man leaves unfinished business behind. Unfinished business
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  Speaker 5: and 400 choice suburban acres between the highway and the seas.
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  Speaker 5: 400 undeveloped acres in which any real estate man would
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  Speaker 5: see the possibilities. Add to that a partner like Harry
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  Speaker 5: Newton and three beautiful daughters, especially a daughter like Vanjie.
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  Speaker 2: Are you hurt?
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  Speaker 6: No, no, I guess not. I just fell down getting
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  Speaker 6: out of your way.
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  Speaker 2: Here, let me brush you off. I'm sorry. I came
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  Speaker 2: around the bend and didn't see you until.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, it was my fault.
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  Speaker 8: I shouldn't have been walking in the middle of the
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  Speaker 8: road daydreaming like that.
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  Speaker 6: All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: The receiving hospitals are made for people like you.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 8: I started out at the age of two playing with
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  Speaker 8: electric light sockets.
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  Speaker 2: Since I nearly knocked you down, I better introduce myself.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Harry Newton. And I always cross streets when
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  Speaker 2: the light is green. Getting by in life merely requires
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  Speaker 2: the ability to take advantage of green lights.
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  Speaker 6: And the ability to recognize red lights.
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  Speaker 10: Huh?
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  Speaker 6: I'm Evangeline Carr.
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  Speaker 2: So... So you're Vangie, the beautiful one.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, Grace is the beautiful one.
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  Speaker 2: And Susie?
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  Speaker 6: She's the cute one, the baby.
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  Speaker 2: And you, Vangie?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm... Well, I'm just me, Vangie. The plain one.
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  Speaker 6: The old maid.
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  Speaker 2: Just because you're the oldest?
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  Speaker 6: Mr. Newton, you wouldn't be interested in me.
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  Speaker 2: No? Maybe I like plain girls.
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  Speaker 8: That was the way it was. So sudden I couldn't
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  Speaker 8: prepare for it. And I'd met Harry Newton.
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  Speaker 6: But what about all those questions and fears in my mind?
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  Speaker 6: What had happened to them? I didn't know. Downstairs, Harry
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  Speaker 6: Newton was talking to Aunt Martha. Of course you'll realize, Mr. Newton,
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  Speaker 6: this is merely an interview.
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  Speaker 13: Our only knowledge of you is that my brother entrusted
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  Speaker 13: you with some of his real estate ventures.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't entrust me with anything, Andy. He watched me
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  Speaker 2: like a hawk.
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  Speaker 13: You'll realize, of course, the responsibilities that go with this venture.
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  Speaker 13: We know nothing of your character or affiliations. Perhaps you
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  Speaker 13: can supply some of the details.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a credit card with... the Union Oil Company. I... Look, Andy,
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  Speaker 2: I came 400 miles from Los Angeles to discuss the
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  Speaker 2: promotion of a subdivision. It's a little late for references.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in this deal with both feet and a legal document.
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  Speaker 2: Are you handling it for the kids?
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  Speaker 6: Well, not exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, then let's have a drink and make small talk.
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  Speaker 2: You'll learn more about me that way. How about it?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, no. You can make yourself at home. Dinner
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  Speaker 6: is at seven.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks. Thanks very much. Never let a lady make
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  Speaker 2: a phone call when she doesn't know she's not alone.
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  Speaker 2: That's rule number.
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  Speaker 6: Who are you?
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  Speaker 2: Harry Newton. Who are you, Grace?
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  Speaker 12: No, I'm Susie. The youngest. You're the man who murdered
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  Speaker 12: my father.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty big statement for a little girl.
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  Speaker 12: I say it only as an apology for having thought it.
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  Speaker 2: I accept your apology. Only don't say it again.
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  Speaker 6: I won't.
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  Speaker 12: You going back to Los Angeles soon?
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 12: Would you like company?
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  Speaker 2: A passenger?
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  Speaker 12: I said company.
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  Speaker 2: Your aunt will ask for character references.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't ask for any.
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  Speaker 2: You got yourself a ride, Junior.
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  Speaker 12: You wouldn't be thinking of leaving earlier.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sleeping over. Our first customer is coming to dinner.
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  Speaker 10: Who?
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  Speaker 2: People by the name of Burkhart.
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  Speaker 14: Oh?
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  Speaker 12: Quit Burkhart and his silly wife, huh? They're awful bores.
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  Speaker 2: And get set for some boring neighbors. We plan to
• 11:46
  Speaker 2: sell them a lot.
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  Speaker 12: That's too bad. I love company, but I think I'll
• 11:52
  Speaker 12: develop a headache and stay in my room tonight. Unless
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  Speaker 12: I can change your mind about leaving.
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  Speaker 2: Shall we change the subject?
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  Speaker 12: Suit yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't want to press my luck too far.
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  Speaker 7: THE END.
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  Speaker 8: All that evening, through dinner with the Burkharts, through the
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  Speaker 8: business talks that followed, all I could do was watch him,
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  Speaker 8: listen to his voice. I'd never expected a man like this.
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  Speaker 8: Never expected him to make me feel like this. Like
• 12:27
  Speaker 8: I felt when he smiled and said goodnight. Like I
• 12:30
  Speaker 8: felt when he drove away with Susie for Los Angeles
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  Speaker 8: next morning.
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  Speaker 6: Like I felt when he called me long distance.
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  Speaker 2: How are you getting along up there without me, Vanjie?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I suppose we're just barely managing. Good.
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  Speaker 2: I'll have to hurry back.
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  Speaker 6: The surveyors will be here next week.
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  Speaker 2: Who cares?
• 12:47
  Speaker 6: But I.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to waste this call talking business.
• 12:50
  Speaker 6: Then what.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to.
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  Speaker 4: Talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Still an old mate, I hope.
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  Speaker 6: I'm afraid so.
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  Speaker 2: And still as plain as ever.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful. Don't ever change, Vanjie.
• 12:59
  Speaker 6: All right. Why did I laugh? And why did I
• 13:06
  Speaker 6: go around walking on air?
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  Speaker 8: He was just flirting, probably with a purpose, for business reasons.
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  Speaker 6: But I didn't care. I knew it was crazy, but
• 13:17
  Speaker 6: I didn't care.
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  Speaker 8: I counted the days until he'd be back. When he came,
• 13:22
  Speaker 8: he brought me a gift, a quilted velvet robe.
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  Speaker 6: Aunt Martha said it looked like the inside of a coffin,
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: but I liked it. And I liked the funny little
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: note that went with it.
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  Speaker 8: After a few days seeing him, talking to him, began
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  Speaker 8: to fill my thoughts so completely that I couldn't sleep.
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  Speaker 8: So one night I walked down through the rose garden
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  Speaker 8: to the little tea house on the edge of the palisade.
• 13:52
  Speaker 8: I was sitting there, watching the moonlight on the surf
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  Speaker 8: far below.
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  Speaker 2: Don't think anything personal. You're not alone.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's you.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter? No sleep tonight?
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  Speaker 6: No. I have things on my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Like real estate? And me?
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  Speaker 6: Yes. I'm trying to make some sort of plan.
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  Speaker 2: I just like to feel my way along. See how
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  Speaker 2: far I can go. Plans are good to start with.
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  Speaker 2: Then you follow your instinct.
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  Speaker 6: I like to know where I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't?
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 2: You've never asked me a lot of questions like the others.
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  Speaker 2: But I suppose you've been wondering why your father and
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: I were doing business together. Why he invited me in.
• 14:37
  Speaker 6: I knew there must have been a reason.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: A reason? I met him in Palm Springs, gave him
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: a tip on a horse, and it won. He figured
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  Speaker 2: he owed me something.
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  Speaker 6: That's hard to believe.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't it? Well, of course, he liked me, too. He
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  Speaker 2: thought I had guts and brains. Beyond that, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to know a thing.
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  Speaker 6: And if he had?
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  Speaker 2: I'd have told him.
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  Speaker 4: Come here.
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  Speaker 6: Harry, no.
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: You still afraid to follow your instincts?
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: Come here.
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  Speaker 6: It's all so crazy. Two weeks ago, Harry Newton was
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  Speaker 6: just a name. A name I hated and feared. There's
• 15:28
  Speaker 6: nothing of that now. Now he's a man. A man
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: that I love. My husband. We drove to Las Vegas
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  Speaker 6: and were married.
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  Speaker 9: In a little chapel there.
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  Speaker 6: Then we had a fast honeymoon, play roulette, seeing Boulder Dam,
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  Speaker 6: just having fun being together.
• 15:47
  Speaker 8: And when we came home again, the words were still
• 15:50
  Speaker 8: ringing in my ears. For better, for worse, for richer,
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  Speaker 8: for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and
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  Speaker 8: cherish until death do us part.
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: Until death? Do us part.
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  Speaker 13: I've moved my things into a corner room, Benji, so
• 16:11
  Speaker 13: that you and he may have the suite.
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: Relax, Andy. This is strictly temporary.
• 16:14
  Speaker 8: We'll probably go to Los Angeles eventually. All Harry's friends
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: are there.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, I'll have my stuff shipped up. There isn't much.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: It's packed away in Lou Danch's apartment. He's the one
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I was telling you about, honey. He owns that restaurant
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: on the strip.
• 16:25
  Speaker 13: While you were away, there was a phone call from
• 16:28
  Speaker 13: Miss Newton.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: From a Miss Kitty Platt. Kitty Platt?
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Girl I used to date. Oh. Probably wondering what happened
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: to me. I wonder what did. Look at me. Head
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: over heels in matrimony, and I love it.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, Harry.
• 16:45
  Speaker 12: Harry. Is that a private match, or can anybody get
• 16:48
  Speaker 12: in it?
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Hello, Susie. Hi.
• 16:53
  Speaker 12: You'll have to excuse my lack of tact. Never been
• 16:56
  Speaker 12: a sister-in-law before, and I'm at a loss. Best of everything, sis.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: You rate it. Thank you, Susie. Is anything wrong, dear?
• 17:08
  Speaker 9: You look awfully tired.
• 17:10
  Speaker 12: Hasn't Harry told you? It takes a gentleman to keep
• 17:14
  Speaker 12: a secret. Thank you, Harry.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: You're welcome.
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: What a lovely wedding band, Vangie. Nothing temporary about this
• 17:24
  Speaker 12: piece of jewelry.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Three passes at a crap table.
• 17:27
  Speaker 12: Tell me, Vangie, darling. Did he buy you the short
• 17:30
  Speaker 12: order ceremony or the blue plate? It's very impressive, I understand. Bless,
• 17:37
  Speaker 12: O Lord, this ring, that he who gives it and
• 17:40
  Speaker 12: she who wears it may abide in thy peace.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Let us pray.
• 17:46
  Speaker 15: Susie.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: Susie, dear. Harry.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: That's a sick girl. Mind if I speak to her?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: As a member of the family, I feel I have
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: the privilege of helping. I'll be right back.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: But, Harry. Vandy! Vandy!
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: What?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, what is it, Aunt Martha?
• 18:06
  Speaker 13: Well, I didn't want to talk to you, dear, while
• 18:08
  Speaker 13: he was with you. But I'm worried about Susie. She's
• 18:12
  Speaker 13: been acting very queerly. Not eating and so jumpy.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: What do you suppose is wrong? I don't know.
• 18:20
  Speaker 13: But she hasn't been herself since she went to Los Angeles.
• 18:23
  Speaker 13: Perhaps if you had a talk with her.
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Harry is doing that now. Harry? Yes. A stranger.
• 18:29
  Speaker 12: Auntie.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, dear.
• 18:31
  Speaker 13: I shouldn't have said that. It's just that I can't
• 18:34
  Speaker 13: get used to the idea. I mean, his being one
• 18:37
  Speaker 13: of us. But then I hardly know him. It's very
• 18:41
  Speaker 13: hard to know him. Yes, I suppose it is. Well,
• 18:45
  Speaker 13: I only meant that perhaps someone else should talk to Susie.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: You mean you think maybe Harry has something to do
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: with Susie acting this way?
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Why, no, Vanjie, I didn't say that. No. No, of
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: course not.
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: Harry?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: How is Susie?
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: She'll be okay.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Maybe I better talk to her.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Leave her alone. She won't tell you anything.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Then you tell me.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: That's one of those things. How do the writers put it?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Unrequited love. You? Well, if it is, she hasn't told
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: me the whole truth.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: What did she tell you?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Say, how do you turn the heat out in this
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: dungeon of a room?
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: There's a gas heater in the fireplace, but what did
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: she tell you? Harry.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Look, Angel. Are you going to turn on me, too?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Don't do it. I need you. I've been rattling around
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: like a pebble in this old drum of a world
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: with nothing to grab onto. Now I'm safe. I've got somebody.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: This alley cat's got a home. That's you, Angel. You're
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: my roof and four walls.
• 19:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, Harry, darling, please understand.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: It's not that I don't trust you.
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: But I'm worried about Susie.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, baby. You talk to her tomorrow if it'll do
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: any good. But right now, don't worry about it. Come on,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: let's get some sleep.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Help! Help!
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, what is that?
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: Help!
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know. What time is it?
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Six o'clock.
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: Help!
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Help!
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: It's Aaron, I think.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Who's Aaron?
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: He's the gardener. He must be below that window there.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: It's Miss Susie. Susie? What about her?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: What about her?
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: She's dead.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Dead?
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Dead!
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Tragedy begets tragedy. Accidents breed more accidents. Or was this
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: another accident? At any rate... In the grim sequence of
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: events started by that simple accident on a city street,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: a second member of the Carr family was dead. They
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: say tragedies strike in threes. I wonder, and so does
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Vanjie Carr wonder.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Why did it happen? Why did she do it? What
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: did Harry know? Did he have anything to do with it? Oh, no,
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: I mustn't. Just relax now. But, Rez, that's what I'm
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: supposed to do.
• 21:42
  Speaker 13: Relax.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: In a few minutes, he'll come up and tell me.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Tell me what they're talking about down there.
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: He and Aaron and my sister, Grace. Tell me about it, Aaron,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: from the beginning.
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: It's hard for me to tell it now, Miss Grace.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: It's like a dream.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: He hasn't told it the same way twice.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: But I try to.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: I try to. Mr. Newton knows that. Now try again, Aaron. Well.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: I was up early, not early for me, but early,
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: and there was a mist and the ground was wet,
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: so I wore my rubbers. I was pinning back the
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: honeysuckle on the trellis near the garage when she came by.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: Didn't see me, but I saw her walking as if
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: in her sleep. Yet she looked as if she knew
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: where she was going. And she was dressed and combed
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: and carried a purse. So I said good morning. But
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: she didn't answer and went off into the mist toward
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: the tea house on the edge of the palisade where
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: there's only one path. And then presently I worked my
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: way down the path through the rose garden to say
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: good morning again. But she was gone. She had jumped
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: into the ocean onto the rocks below, and I found
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: her purse, that purse on the bar and that riding crop.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: The riding crop is mine. I left it there several
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: days ago.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, I see. All right, Aaron, that's all. You may
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: go now.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: All right, Miss Grace.
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Newton? Harry's the name.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Yes, of course. We are related, aren't we?
• 23:14
  Speaker 16: Should I apologize for not belaboring you with congratulatory messages
• 23:18
  Speaker 16: on your marriage?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Some people are just naturally short on sentiment. You have
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: other gifts.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: Thanks.
• 23:24
  Speaker 16: It's just that I have an instinctive aversion to attractive
• 23:27
  Speaker 16: men being snatched from the open market.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: If I ever get back on the market, I'll send
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: you a credit slip.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Planning to get back on the market?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Not at this particular time. I see.
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: Anybody here?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Vanjie.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: Don't turn on the light, Harry. I look awful.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Relax, Angel. I know how upset you are, but you've
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: got to relax.
• 24:00
  Speaker 9: I can't. I can't.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, Susie. Susie, you poor baby.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Take it easy.
• 24:07
  Speaker 15: Susie.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: This way you'll just fly apart, springs and wheels and everything.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to rest a few days.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, I want to know everything, Harry. Who was it?
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: Who did this to Susie?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I lied to her.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, I lied when I said Susie chose me
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: as a confidant. The way it happened, I stumbled into
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: the middle of her romance by accident.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Then who?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: A neighbor of yours, Whit Burkhart.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Whit Burkhart, but... Oh, he's married.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you see, I bumped into them in a quiet
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: little restaurant in Los Angeles. I was about as welcome
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: as bad news in a collect telegram. I grabbed a
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: quick one at the bar and ran.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: But is that all?
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: No. Susie made it her business to see me the
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: next day. She wanted me to promise not to tell
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: anyone I'd seen them together. I let her talk, and
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: she did. Plenty. It wasn't nice the way she told it,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: crying as if her insides were splintered. This fellow Burkhardt
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: had met her in Los Angeles to let her know
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: that they'd come to the end of the line. He
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: was afraid his wife was getting wise, so they had
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: one last rendezvous. That's all, except the way she loved
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: this guy. He must be all right.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, Harry.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: A man doesn't have to be all right for a
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: woman to love him. The next few days I spent
• 25:34
  Speaker 8: in bed. I was supposed to relax, but I couldn't.
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: It was too much to think about. Even the doctor's
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: pills didn't help. Little things made impressions on me. Little
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: things that people said.
• 25:49
  Speaker 16: Your husband took me riding this morning, darling.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Tell me, Vanjie, how did you ever trap him? I
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: don't know. He just seemed to like me.
• 26:00
  Speaker 16: Well, I guess we're not hard to like. Daddy left
• 26:03
  Speaker 16: us quite a bit of allure. A square block in
• 26:06
  Speaker 16: San Francisco, four theaters, two open-air markets, and a lovely
• 26:10
  Speaker 16: office building in Los Angeles. In short, a real estate
• 26:13
  Speaker 16: man's paradise.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Grace. Sorry, darling.
• 26:17
  Speaker 16: He's so different from my faithful, methodical Lenny, I'm just jealous.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: Aren't you flattered?
• 26:31
  Speaker 11: Well.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Got you making yourself irresistible.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: I just got tired of looking like something that's been
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: left out in the rain.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Flowers do all right.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: You're very sweet, Harry, but I know my limitations.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Nonsense. I think you're very attractive.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: But not beautiful, like Grace. If we take her for
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: a measuring stick.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: No one would take Grace for a measuring stick or
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: any other kind of stick. She's the sexy type.
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Nice of you to come, Mrs.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Burkhart.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Cigarette? No, thanks. Whit made me give up smoking. He
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: really babies me, that man. Forced me to go away
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: for a two-week rest. I told him I felt fine,
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: but he insisted. Was that when he went to Los Angeles?
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Los Angeles? Whit hasn't been to Los Angeles in four years. Why, no,
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: he went along with me. Of course she was lying.
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: Her husband had been to Los Angeles, just as Harry
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: said he had, with Susie.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: He must have been. She was just trying to make
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: Harry look bad. So were the rest of them. That's
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: why I took.
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: To listening to find out what they were up to
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: to protect Harry.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: I listened, even from behind doors. Hello, Newton.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: You remember me? Gurney, the lawyer? Uh-huh. Is Mrs.
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: Newton too ill for a visitor?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, she is. What do you want? It's in regard
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: to your.
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: Suggestion, Mr.
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: Newton, that arrangements be made to give you power of
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: attorney in matters pertaining to Della Vista.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: You can lower your voice. I told you my wife
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: is ill.
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: Any request of that nature should be gone over with
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: all parties concerned.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I said lower your voice.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: Two untimely tragedies have decreased the number of parties concerned.
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: I'd say you have two down and two to go, Mr.
• 28:34
  Speaker 14: Newton.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that?
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Nothing.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Have you discussed this matter with Mrs.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: Newton?
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: There's no reason for her to object. On the other hand,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: there's Grace Carr. Have you spoken to her? Not more
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: than a moment ago. It's no go, Newton.
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: This Carr, it seems, has developed quite an interest in
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: Della Vista, or some aspects of it. She intends to
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: work with you as closely as possible.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: That sounds engaging.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 29:07
  Speaker 11: For you, it should be a cinch, Newton. I understand
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: you're quite a hand with the ladies.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I've had my innings.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: I listen to everything.
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: Sometimes I woke up in the middle of the night
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: and listened. Listen to Harry and Grace downstairs talking.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Laughing.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Laughing.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: They laugh together a lot these days. Oh, Harry, you're wonderful.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: I don't know how you did it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: What's up, partner?
• 29:41
  Speaker 16: Telegram from Jim Strand. He's willing to talk turns, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: he's free to talk tonight.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Well, for heaven's sake, let's be sociable. Maybe we can
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: have the deal signed and moving tomorrow.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: That means staying over in San Francisco tonight.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I'll take care of the hotel reservations.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, high pressure, Harry.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: We'll take them to the best restaurant in town and
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: we'll order their best meal. Are you worried about your figure?
• 30:03
  Speaker 17: No.
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Are you worried about... See you later.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Hello. I went to Grosvenor in San Francisco.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: A charming little hotel.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's you. Hello, Angel. I thought you were in bed.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: How's your headache?
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Better.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: I'd like to go along with.
• 30:22
  Speaker 14: You, Harry.
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: Tonight?
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Tonight? In your condition?
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: What's wrong with me? Don't you want my company?
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: You're not up to it. You're sick.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I said I'm better. I've decided to help you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Help me?
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: Grace helps you.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: She tags along.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: Can't I tag along, too? Please, Harry, I want to
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: go with you.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: All right. Why not?
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: And this afternoon.
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: I want you to take me riding. Did you know
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: I could ride? I'm better than Grace. I've won cups.
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: Shall we go riding this afternoon?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Sure, Angel. Maybe that's a good idea.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: What's that, Grace? I don't know, Aunt Martha.
• 31:11
  Speaker 9: I can't see.
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: The fog is rolling in.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: It's a horse.
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: No rider. Is it Benji's? Well, Harry's.
• 31:18
  Speaker 16: He's tearing down the path toward the highway, probably heading
• 31:21
  Speaker 16: for the stables.
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: Aunt Martha, something's happened.
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: I knew it.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: I knew it.
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: Come on.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: Here comes the other one. It's Harry. He's carrying Benji.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Hi.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Help me get her up to her room.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Please stop acting silly. I wasn't hurt a bit.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, she was. Her shoulder's bruised. I'm calling Dr. Rupert.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: And what's more, you're going to the clinic tomorrow for x-rays.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: No sense taking chances.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: What happened?
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: A horse bolted.
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: Why? I don't know. Maybe Harry does. Yes. He was
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: riding just behind. Did you see any reason for it, Harry?
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: No, not a thing.
• 32:02
  Speaker 8: I tell you, Harry, there's nothing wrong with me. Nothing
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: but a simple old-fashioned headache.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Maybe you can grab some sleep before the doctor gets here.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Why are you making such a fuss? Is it because
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: you don't want me with you in San Francisco?
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: You certainly can't go till we're sure you're all right.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: Then you're going without me.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about it later. Get some sleep, Angel.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: What are you doing?
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Connecting up your heater, this room is like a tomb.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: If we take the chill out, maybe you'll sleep.
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: You won't go without me, will you, Harry?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Are we back on that again?
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Harry.
• 32:46
  Speaker 10: What?
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: I've made you angry with me, haven't I?
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: No.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Do you love me?
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: It's so strange, this marriage of ours.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: It's more like an affair, really. It happened so fast.
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: We don't really know each other, do we, Harry?
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Why did you want me, Harry?
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Because I love you.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Because you love me.
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: Yet if I were gone tomorrow, would there be another
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: to take my place as there were others before me?
• 33:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, no. Don't answer that. I get sillier by the minute.
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Forgive me, darling.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to forgive.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, there is.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: I won't be silly anymore.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you won't, Angel. Good night. I'll see that
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you're not disturbed.
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: Harry.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: Harry. Oh, darling. Harry.
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: I'd come to that state of mind. The senses are
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: so drugged with fatigue.
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: There's an end to caring. Almost. All the doubts, the
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: fears loomed up and enveloped me.
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: Yet, I was getting drowsy.
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: Reality was becoming distorted into nightmare. There was a strange
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: ringing in my ears and I began to see things.
• 34:31
  Speaker 6: Like a dream. I thought I saw Pookie, my canary,
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: lying on the bottom of his cage with his little
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: legs thrust stiffly upward in death.
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: Then I was hearing things like.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: A hissing snake and down on the floor I saw it.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: Coiled up by the heater. I must.
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: I must.
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: Grace.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Grace laughing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 17: Laughing with Harry.
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: Somehow, for the first time, I didn't care. She had
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: no cause to close. It would happen to her, too.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: Just like it happened to death and to Susan. And
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: like it was happening.
• 35:43
  Speaker 12: To me.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: In tonight's full hour of suspense, Mr. Robert Ryan appears
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: as Harry Newton and Miss Ruth Warwick appears as Vanjie
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Carr in Beyond Reason. Tonight's study in suspense. In just
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: a moment, we will return with act two of suspense.
• 36:17
  Speaker 18: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: And now, back to our Hollywood soundstage and to our producer, Mr.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Robert Montgomery, for Act Two of Beyond Reason, starring Ruth
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Warwick and Robert Ryan, in a narrative well calculated to
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: keep you in.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Suspense!
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: Suspense!
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: It all started with a fatal accident on a street
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: corner in San Francisco. You probably read about it in
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: the papers a few weeks ago. Just an everyday accident.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: But it was an end and a beginning. An end
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: for Pinkton Carr, who was killed, and a beginning for
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: his three daughters and Harry Newton. But with the sequence
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: of events half played through, there are now only two daughters.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: One down and two to go. And right now, lying
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: on the bed in her room, is Vanjie Carr, the
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: hiss of gas loud in her ears, drowning out the thoughts,
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: the fears, and the voices of Sister Grace and Harry
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Newton in the living room below.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Harry?
• 37:37
  Speaker 16: I told Jim Strand we'd meet him at nine. We
• 37:40
  Speaker 16: can make it if we hurry.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Where's Auntie?
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: She's resting.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's go.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Well, what about Mrs.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Newton?
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: Shall we take a peek?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: No, no, she'll wake up if I go in. Let
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: her sleep. I could be back by midnight if we hurry.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Let's just go.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: I dreamed church bells.
• 38:08
  Speaker 9: Were tolling my dead.
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: That someone was stuffing my throat with nostrils.
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: With cotton padding. I couldn't breathe. My limbs were bound
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: to the bed. Tried to scream, but I couldn't. I
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: started to spin. The bed was spinning.
• 38:30
  Speaker 15: The whole room was spinning like a whirlpool, ever narrowing,
• 38:36
  Speaker 15: until finally it was as thin as the sand of
• 38:39
  Speaker 15: a bell.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, Dr. Rupert.
• 38:47
  Speaker 14: I just got your message.
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: Been out all day.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: How is she? She seems quite well. I guess my
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: call was a little hasty.
• 38:53
  Speaker 13: What happened?
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Fell off a horse.
• 38:55
  Speaker 14: That girl, always something. It's been that way as long
• 38:59
  Speaker 14: as I've known her. So she thought she was strong
• 39:01
  Speaker 14: enough to go riding. Maybe that's my fault.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: It was the horse's fault. Well, I'll go up and
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: have a look. She's, uh, she's sleeping.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Well, that's always good medicine.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: Going someplace?
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Business appointment.
• 39:17
  Speaker 17: Oh.
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: Well, good night.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: What's that crash? That came from Vanjie's room. There's something wrong.
• 39:24
  Speaker 17: There's darkness. Darkness and flashing lights. Changing colors. Shifting designs.
• 39:40
  Speaker 17: Noises that are somehow recognizable to human voices.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Vanjie.
• 39:47
  Speaker 14: Have a blanket.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: You're quite a killer.
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: Always a danger of pneumonia.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: He's a murderer.
• 39:51
  Speaker 13: Listen to me.
• 39:52
  Speaker 19: I know.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: He's a murderer.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Vanjie.
• 39:54
  Speaker 14: Lots of coffee.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: More coffee.
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: Kill her.
• 39:57
  Speaker 20: Blanket.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: Murder.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: Coffee.
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: Murder.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Vanjie.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Murder.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Vanjie. Vanjie.
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, Harry.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Vanjie.
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: Oh, Harry.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Angel.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, Harry.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: It's been a tough night, but you came through it
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: as good as new. Last night I wanted to shoot myself.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: It's all my fault.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: No. No, it's not. Don't say that.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I thought I connected the heater fine, but something must
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: have happened. Maybe I kicked the pipe. I don't know.
• 40:33
  Speaker 17: Harry.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Angie. Listen to me before they come back in. They
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: may say things about me. Your aunt's got some weird
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: ideas about what happened. Don't listen to them, Angie. Don't
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: listen to them.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: I won't, Harry.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I love you, Angel. That's all that matters, isn't it?
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: Yes. Yes, that's all that matters.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: What's wrong?
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: Nothing, Harry.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: You don't believe me.
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: I do, Harry. I do believe you love me.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: That is, I want to believe you.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: I want to more than anything else in the world.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: You've got to.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I will.
• 41:21
  Speaker 14: Are we up, or are we going to sleep some more?
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: She's up, Dr. Rupert. There's a lucky girl.
• 41:26
  Speaker 14: What a fine room for such an accident.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Big and drafty.
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: My poor Pookie. My poor Pookie. I'm sorry, Aunt Martha.
• 41:35
  Speaker 14: It's too bad you didn't knock over the bed table sooner.
• 41:38
  Speaker 14: But then it was soon enough, thank heavens. You should
• 41:41
  Speaker 14: get some sleep, Mr.
• 41:42
  Speaker 12: Newton.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I'll settle for a cup of coffee. And as for you, Angel,
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: no more trouble while I'm gone.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: No.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: You must reassure him, Vanjie. He's eaten with remorse.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: Disappointment, you mean.
• 41:56
  Speaker 14: He considers the accident his fault.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: Accident?
• 41:59
  Speaker 13: You keep calling it an accident.
• 42:01
  Speaker 14: Your auntie, Vanjie, is very disturbed and full of wild theories.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: There's no need to theorize.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, the blame is all mine.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: I got up to get some water, yes, and the
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: sleeping pill made me croggy. I must have stumbled on
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: the gas hose and pulled it out without realizing it.
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: I'm always doing things like that.
• 42:26
  Speaker 14: Yes, you are, as long as I've known you. You know,
• 42:30
  Speaker 14: there are those of us who go through life with
• 42:32
  Speaker 14: a predisposition toward having accidents. We actually will them to happen.
• 42:38
  Speaker 14: We who are thus disposed live closer to the edge
• 42:41
  Speaker 14: of time than others. We walk in front of moving cars.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: We fall from high places.
• 42:46
  Speaker 14: We are bitten by snakes and sucked in by riptides.
• 42:50
  Speaker 14: If there's poison oak, we will find it. If there
• 42:53
  Speaker 14: are live wires, we will touch them. We are wedded
• 42:56
  Speaker 14: to calamity.
• 42:57
  Speaker 13: We are indeed wedded to calamity indeed.
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: You may discount the other nonsense and be sure of
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: the last.
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: Wedded to calamity no no i mustn't listen to such
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: things i mustn't think such things how could i when
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: i saw the genuine concern the.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: Fright in his face when i heard the love in his.
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: Voice in those days when i lay resting from my
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: narrow escape he was.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: Sweet Sweet enough to convince me I wasn't alone. Not really.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: Not even when he was away in San Francisco on business. Hello? Oh, darling. Oh, darling,
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: I've missed you. San Francisco might as well be on
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: the other side of the world. Oh, no, darling, come
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: home tonight. Well, then try to.
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: Oh, please, Harry.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: What? What? Unto eternity. Oh, yes, darling.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: I love you. Unto eternity. Yes, darling. Yes. Goodbye.
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: But suddenly, I was feeling alone again. Unto eternity, he said.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: What did he mean? Eternity? The word made me shudder. Hello.
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: Hello, Vanjie. You don't seem to recognize me. I'm Lenny Walden.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Grace's friend.
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes. Yes, of course. Won't you come in?
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Thanks.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Grace isn't here?
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: No.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: I didn't really expect her to be. I just thought that.
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: You two haven't quarreled, have you?
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: No, we're... Well, yes, I guess so.
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Well, it was my fault.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Jealous.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: I'm in love with Grace, you know.
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Well, I won't bother you anymore with my problems.
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: Do you care to tell me just what or who
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: you're jealous of?
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: I'd rather not.
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: Then may I guess you're jealous of my husband? Well,
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: don't be. My husband is very much in love with me.
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: If anything, he merely tolerates the way Grace tags along
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: after him and putters in real estate.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: I guess you're right, Mrs.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Newton.
• 45:45
  Speaker 19: It's just that when I saw them dancing... Dancing? Well,
• 45:48
  Speaker 19: Grace didn't even tell me she was in town. Somebody
• 45:50
  Speaker 19: saw them at the band box and called me. I
• 45:53
  Speaker 19: guess I was steamed up and anxious to jump at conclusions.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: I'm an idiot.
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: Not at all. Just a little hasty.
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: I've got to hand it to you, Vanjie. You're a
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: lot more broad-minded than I am. I envy you.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: Envy me? Envy me? When I was so alone and frightened.
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: When he'd gone, I went upstairs to our room.
• 46:22
  Speaker 8: Frantically, I looked through his luggage, went through his clothes, searching,
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: searching for some clue, some clue to the man I married.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: There was none. Nothing. And I had to know... Now
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: I had to know. Long distance. Give me the Hotel Grosvenor,
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: San Francisco. Thank you. Oh, I had to know. I
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: had to talk to him, ask him to come home,
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: or go to him, anything, anything.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Grosvenor?
• 46:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mr. Newton, please. Room 724. One moment.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 47:00
  Speaker 12: Hello?
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 47:03
  Speaker 12: Who is this?
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: It was Grace's voice. Without the slightest doubt. I ran
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: out to my car.
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: Grace had answered that telephone in Harry's room.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: And I knew.
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: Now I was sure of it all. Harry had killed Susie.
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: Whether it had been suicide or murder, he'd killed her.
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: And in the same way, he would kill me.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Hey, hey, look at that.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: That car better slow down for that turn.
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: Hey, look!
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: You see, the sequence of events comes to full circle.
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: It started with an automobile accident. Was it going to
• 48:06
  Speaker 5: end with another one? At least this was one they
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: couldn't blame on Harry Newton. Vanjie simply drove too fast,
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: tried to take a shortcut to San Francisco through a tree,
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: rushing to her husband. In the end, he had to
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: rush to the emergency hospital to her. But she was
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: all right.
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: The indestructible Vanjie.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: Perennial accident case. Always smelling of antiseptics and painted with iodine.
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: I lay there between hospital sheets, pretending that the hypodermic
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: needle had put me to sleep.
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: But I was listening to Dr. Rupert as he talked
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: to Harry and Aunt Martha.
• 48:46
  Speaker 14: The night of your wife's first unfortunate experience, I had
• 48:49
  Speaker 14: a vague suspicion that the circumstances were not entirely accidental.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 48:55
  Speaker 14: Banji has twice tried.
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: To take her own life. I don't believe it. It's true.
• 49:00
  Speaker 14: For people like Vanjie, it is sometimes harder to find
• 49:03
  Speaker 14: the dividing point between accident and suicide. There's a certain
• 49:07
  Speaker 14: will to die, a subconscious compulsion which invites disaster.
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: It's nonsense.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Go on.
• 49:13
  Speaker 14: In the matter of the gas heater, Vanjie said herself
• 49:15
  Speaker 14: she pulled the flexible pipe by accident. Was that accident
• 49:20
  Speaker 14: or intention?
• 49:21
  Speaker 13: I don't believe she ever did it. It was he
• 49:23
  Speaker 13: who really pulled the cord.
• 49:24
  Speaker 14: No, I think it was Vanjie. She invited disaster again tonight,
• 49:28
  Speaker 14: driving a car off the road at high speed.
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: Was it accident?
• 49:32
  Speaker 14: But did she suddenly cease to care whether the car
• 49:34
  Speaker 14: made that curve or not?
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: Or did somebody tamper with a steering wheel on her car?
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: You'd better stop that, Andy. Please, Martha.
• 49:41
  Speaker 14: You'll know too that the tendency seems to run in
• 49:43
  Speaker 14: her family. Her father stepped in front of a moving car.
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: How do we know even that?
• 49:48
  Speaker 14: And Susie leaped to her death off a cliff.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: Or was pushed.
• 49:50
  Speaker 14: Times Vangie was drawn to self-destruction were times of mental depression.
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: We've got to work to save her.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: I'll do anything, Doctor. Anything you say.
• 50:00
  Speaker 14: There'll be a lot for you to do.
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: You have it all figured out, haven't you, Dr.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: Rupert?
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: And you're right, of course. Except for that about mental depressions.
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: That's not what causes it. It's the fear. Fear of
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: being alone. Of not being loved. Of not being loved
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: by Harry Newton. I heard what he said. He'd do anything.
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: Anything.
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: But he didn't fool me. I know he wants Grace.
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: I'm in his way. I know.
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: They're gone now.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's stifling in here. So close.
• 50:37
  Speaker 9: I must have some air.
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: That's better.
• 50:46
  Speaker 6: Now, there was a little razor sharp blade here a
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: little while ago. They used it to make a blood test. Oh,
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: but it's gone. No matter. In the lavatory, just off
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: my room. There'll be a drinking glass. If I can
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: break that without too much noise. Glass cuts. Yes. Glass.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 51:15
  Speaker 9: What is it, nurse?
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: What's happened? It's Newton. She's gone out that window. Well,
• 51:19
  Speaker 6: stop her. Stop her.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: She can't have gone far.
• 51:22
  Speaker 14: Notify the highway patrol and tell Mr.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Newton.
• 51:24
  Speaker 7: Yes, doctor.
• 51:25
  Speaker 14: We've got to find her to protect her from herself.
• 51:28
  Speaker 6: And from him. What?
• 51:29
  Speaker 13: Don't you see? You've given Harry Newton the soundest alibi
• 51:33
  Speaker 13: in the world. Your assurance that Danji is bent on suicide.
• 51:40
  Speaker 6: What did Aunt Martha mean by that? The soundest alibi.
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: I don't matter. pressed close to the bathroom wall with
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: one shoulder tucked in the corner. They didn't think to
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: look there, but someone was bound to soon.
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: Della Vista, that was it. If I was going to die,
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: I wanted to go home to die. I waited till
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: my room was.
• 52:03
  Speaker 6: Empty again, then I went to the open window.
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: If I could get to my car.
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: Yes, home. Yes, it was right. It was right to
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: come home. It was going on morning, but it was
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: still dark. The house was pitch black. I went inside.
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: There was a telephone. A stray ray of moonlight shone
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: in it. I could see it plainly. And I remembered...
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: And to eternity.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: To have and to hold until death do us part.
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: With this ring I thee wed.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: This ring and three passes at a crap table.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: I went upstairs. My room was cold, dark. One of
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: his shirts was still on the floor where I'd thrown
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: it in my frantic search of his things. It was
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: a sports shirt.
• 53:20
  Speaker 20: He said he wouldn't need a sports shirt in San Francisco.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: I hung it up in the closet. The room was
• 53:29
  Speaker 6: in order otherwise. There was water by my bed and
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: the sleeping pills. I emptied the bottle into my hand
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: and counted them. One, two, three, four. Not enough. I
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: said it louder. The words boomed in silence. Such silence.
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: Not a sound. Not even the stirring of Pookie in
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: her cage.
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: I looked toward the empty cage and shuddered in a
• 54:03
  Speaker 8: sudden chill.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 54:06
  Speaker 8: There was the gas heater close by. I crossed over
• 54:10
  Speaker 8: to it quickly, kneeled down and turned on the gas.
• 54:15
  Speaker 8: Get a blanket.
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: It's murder.
• 54:17
  Speaker 10: Coffee.
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: More coffee.
• 54:18
  Speaker 6: Kill her.
• 54:19
  Speaker 12: Danger.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Blanket.
• 54:20
  Speaker 15: Murder.
• 54:21
  Speaker 17: Kill her.
• 54:26
  Speaker 8: I held the match to the heater and watched it
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: flare up warm and alive. I was beginning to enjoy
• 54:33
  Speaker 8: my borrowed time.
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: That was Harry. Suddenly, in a burst of panic, I
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: knew what unbothered meant. Dr. Rupert had given him the
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: soundest alibi in the world. The assurance I was going
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: to commit suicide. He'd come to make sure I didn't
• 54:53
  Speaker 6: change my mind. It was dark.
• 54:56
  Speaker 8: I could barely make out the shadowy bulk of him.
• 55:00
  Speaker 8: As he looked at the car, I'd come in. Then
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: he entered the house, walking past.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Vanjie! Vanjie, I know you're here.
• 55:13
  Speaker 14: Vanjie!
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: Vanjie! I had to have time to think. I had
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: to think out what it all meant.
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: Angie, come here. I want to talk to you.
• 55:23
  Speaker 9: Oh, but I couldn't think.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: The sound of his voice frightened me.
• 55:28
  Speaker 9: All at once I felt terribly depressed.
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: The boat was sinking. The sides were caving in.
• 55:37
  Speaker 8: All I wanted was to get off. I slipped down
• 55:41
  Speaker 8: the stairs outside. through the rose garden, to the tea house.
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: The night was turning milky. Vision was lengthening by the moment.
• 55:57
  Speaker 20: I couldn't see the surf directly below me, but I
• 56:01
  Speaker 20: could hear it. I thought of Susie, and I leaned
• 56:08
  Speaker 20: on the rail above the retaining wall. And then, Then
• 56:14
  Speaker 20: I heard his footsteps approaching through the rose garden, through
• 56:19
  Speaker 20: the morning mist.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Angel. Not talking this morning, Mrs.
• 56:25
  Speaker 14: Newton?
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: I can't see you, but I know you're there.
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: Don't come any closer.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Is your hand on the rail, Angel? Are you poised
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: and ready? Or are you hoping for a reprieve? Something
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: I'll say that will turn despair to ecstasy.
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: Don't come any closer, Harry. I mean it. I'll jump.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: And what's holding you back? A thread? A lingering hope?
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: That I love you?
• 56:51
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: That I don't love Grace?
• 56:52
  Speaker 6: Yes. So that's it. You know it is. Perry. What?
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: Have you come to kill me? No. You have a
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: perfect alibi. Dr. Rupert said I was a potential suicide.
• 57:07
  Speaker 12: I know.
• 57:09
  Speaker 8: If you push me off under the rocks below.
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: As you pushed Susie. Because you were through with her.
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: It'll be just as perfect a crime. An obvious suicide.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: But Burghardt's wife spoke to you.
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: She could have been lying.
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: And you called my hotel last night, didn't you? And
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: when Grace answered, you hung up. I figured that out
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: and called you back with a beautiful explanation ready. That
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: I'd gotten Lenny Walden and Grace together to patch up
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: their differences.
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: You're lying, Harry.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: If you think so, why don't you jump in?
• 57:37
  Speaker 17: I will.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: I won't let you push me.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to push you.
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: How do I know?
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: You don't. The act and the proof are both one.
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: If I push you, I must want you dead. If
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: I don't push you, I must want you alive. Isn't
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: that so?
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: You have to stand there and wait for the proof.
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: Harry, don't!
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Jump if you want to, but I assure you, Vanjie,
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: the proof is worth the anguish. This is it. Irene
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: Burghardt was lying or she wasn't lying. I killed Susie
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: or I didn't. I want you or I don't want you.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Total proof. Clear, concise, and quick. Harry....
• 58:12
  Speaker 7: Don't!
• 58:13
  Speaker 6: If you come any closer, I'll.
• 58:17
  Speaker 7: Jump!
• 58:25
  Speaker 14: Darling.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: Darling, I've got to help you. That's all that matters.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: Everything I said was true. It's easily proved.
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: This is all the proof a woman would want.
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: To have and to hold from this day forward.
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: Hold me, Harry.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: I will.
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: Our grateful thanks to Robert Ryan and Ruth Warwick. You
• 59:19
  Speaker 5: gave us the excellent performances we expected from an actress
• 59:22
  Speaker 5: whose talent and versatility we've applauded many times before, and
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: from an actor whose outstanding work in Crossfire has deservedly
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: won him an Academy Award nomination. Next week, for suspense,
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: we have selected the story of a successful young man
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: whose gifts are many. He is handsome in youth, charming,
• 59:42
  Speaker 5: and intelligent. He is a poet of considerable ability, and
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: his fame is far-reaching. Beauty and comfort attend his everyday
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: pattern of living. But over him reigns an element ominous
• 59:54
  Speaker 5: and unseen, an element we call suspense.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: Next week, then, The House by the River. Mr.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 18: Montgomery may currently be seen in the Universal International production
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 18: Ride the Pink Horse.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 18: Ryan may soon be seen in the RKO production Berlin Express.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 18: Miss Warwick's current picture is 20th Century Fox's Daisy Canyon.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 18: Beyond Reason, an original story by Devery Freeman, was edited
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 18: and directed by Anton M.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: Leder.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 18: Bud Gluskin is our musical director and conductor, and Lucian
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 18: Morrowick composes the original scores. Next week, hear The House
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 18: by the River on radio's outstanding theater of thrills, one
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 18: hour of.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: Suspense!
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: We leave suspense and beyond reason. This is Victor Sterling.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: Until next time, good night. Follow suspense for more classic broadcasts.