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S2E1: Deadly Honeymoon · If You Please, Himan Brown’s Radio Mystery Theater

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  -Welcome to the second season of "If You Please..."
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  "Himan Brown's Radio Mystery Theater".
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  On this series,
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  we are offering rebroadcasts of a select group
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  of programs created by this legendary producer for CBS
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  between 1974 and 1982.
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  Brown reimagined radio drama for contemporary times.
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  Our new series offers some of these exciting works again.
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  In season one, we delivered riveting tales
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  of foul play, betrayal, greed, and misguided love.
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  We foiled a murder, considered reincarnation,
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  pondered the nature of guilt, and traveled through time.
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  We heard Himan Brown's troupe of seasoned audio actors
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  embody a wide range of characters
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  and deliver thrills time and again.
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  And for season two, they are all set
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  to keep our headsets on and our fingers tapping play.
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  Before each program,
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  commentator John Slavney shares details about the cast,
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  the writer, and the plot. Your job, listen.
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  "If You Please..." is produced in loving memory
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  of Robert Isaacson.
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  ♪♪
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  -Hello, listeners.
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  Welcome to our second season of "If You Please..."
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  I'm John Slavney here with another thriller from the pen
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  of Henry Slesser, a tale called "Deadly Honeymoon".
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  Just married, Susan Carey and her new husband, Dan,
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  are off on their honeymoon.
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  New York to San Francisco,
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  where a new job awaits Dan.
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  They fly as far as Chicago,
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  stopping in Evanston to see Susan's Aunt Clara.
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  The visit goes well
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  until Aunt Clara learns they've only known
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  each other three weeks.
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  Her warning to Susan, never trust a stranger.
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  Susan, our wary new wife, is played by Betsy von Furstenberg
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  in what would be her only appearance
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  on "Radio Mystery Theater".
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  She was born a baroness in a castle in Westphalia,
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  and before the war came to New York with her parents.
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  She danced with the American Ballet Theater at seven,
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  was modeling at 14,
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  and at 18 sat for a "Look" magazine photo essay called
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  "Working Debutante",
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  shot by a 21-year-old staff photographer
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  named Stanley Kubrick.
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  She studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner,
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  and in 1951 made her New York debut on Broadway
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  in Philip Barry's "Second Threshold",
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  a performance that put her on the cover of "Life" magazine
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  as the most promising young actress of the year.
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  She also appeared frequently on television,
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  beginning in the 1950s
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  in prestige productions like "Playhouse 90"
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  and "Alfred Hitchcock Presents",
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  and later in long-running parts in "The Secret Storm"
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  and "As The World Turns".
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  Michael Wager plays Susan's new husband, Dan Carey.
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  Wager was well known in New York theater circles
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  and also had a lively career in television and film.
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  He's one of many "Mystery Theater" actors
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  who turned up in "The Adams Chronicles",
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  The 13-part PBS series broadcast in 1976
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  to mark the American bicentennial.
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  Also in the cast of that series are RMT regulars Paul Hecht,
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  Patricia Elliot, and John Beal,
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  along with Michael Tolan serving as the narrator.
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  Mason Adams joins us as the man
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  who introduces himself as Lieutenant Harrington,
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  already his fourth role in the "Mystery Theater's"
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  first month on the air.
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  Adams had been a New York radio actor for decades by then,
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  but he's probably best remembered today
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  as Charlie Hume,
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  the tough but tender
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  managing editor in the television series "Lou Grant".
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  Elspeth Eric,
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  who also frequently supplied scripts for the series,
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  portrays Susan's fretful aunt Clara
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  and doubles as our stewardess in Act One.
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  Like most Henry Slesser scripts,
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  "Deadly Honeymoon" had its first life as a short story,
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  and in 1986 it was adapted for German radio
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  as "Traue keinem Fremden", which means, of course,
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  never trust a stranger.
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  Slesser, born in Brooklyn
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  to Jewish immigrant parents from Ukraine,
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  was one of Himan Brown's most trusted writers.
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  Over the course of his career,
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  he wrote more than 500 short stories, a handful of novels,
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  hundreds of teleplays
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  and more than 40 episodes for "Radio Mystery Theater".
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  He was also a legendary advertising man
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  who started at the age of 17
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  as a copywriter at Young and Rubicam,
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  and he is reputed to have coined the phrase, coffee break.
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  Now, whether it's coffee or tea
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  or something stronger altogether,
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  pour yourself a cup and get ready to meet a stranger.
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  This episode was recorded on Tuesday, December 11th, 1973,
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  and first aired on Thursday, January 24, 1974.
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  I hope you enjoy listening.
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  ♪♪
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  -The "CBS Radio Mystery Theater" presents...
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  [ Door slowly creaks open ]
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  ♪♪
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  -Come in.
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  Welcome.
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  I'm E.G. Marshall.
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  Welcome to the sound of suspense.
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  Welcome to the fear you can hear,
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  but mostly...
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  welcome to the world of terrifying imagination.
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  ♪♪
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  The story you are about to hear is a love story,
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  but a love story,
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  which begins at the point where many love stories end.
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  It begins after the "Wedding March" has been played.
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  After the vows of love and fidelity exchanged.
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  It begins on the honeymoon in a strange and terrifying fashion.
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  -Don't! Don't! Don't come near me.
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  Stay! Stay away from me, Dan!
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  -Susan, are you out of your head?
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  -I saw her picture. Do you hear me?
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  I found her picture on our honeymoon.
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  ♪♪
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  ♪♪
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  -Our mystery drama "Deadly Honeymoon",
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  was written especially for the "Mystery Theater"
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  by Henry Slesser
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  and stars Betsy von Furstenberg and Michael Wager.
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  I'll be back shortly with Act One.
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  ♪♪
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  ♪♪
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  ♪♪
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  Our story begins 36,000 feet in the air on a flight
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  which departed from New York's Kennedy Airport,
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  and in another hour will be touching down
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  at O'Hare Airport in Chicago.
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  There are almost a hundred passengers on this flight.
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  But an observant stewardess is giving special attention
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  to that handsome couple in seats 18A and 18B.
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  Perhaps it's because all honeymooners have
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  a special radiance.
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  -Are you sure you wouldn't like some more coffee?
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  -Oh, no thanks. Not for me. -I wouldn't mind a cup.
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  -Here you are. -Thanks.
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  -Just ring if you need anything else.
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  -You'd think we were the only people on this flight.
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  -As far as I'm concerned, we are.
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  Oh, Dan, I feel absolutely drunk with happiness.
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  Is that a funny word for the way I feel?
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  -No, it's a great word, Susan.
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  -I was flying hours before we got on the plane.
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  Oh, what time did you say we land in Chicago?
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  -About 2:30.
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  -Is it -- Is it far from the airport to the hotel?
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  -No, actually,
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  it's only about a half an hour from O'Hare to downtown.
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  About 16 miles.
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  -Still, I don't think we'll have time
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  -to make Evanston today, do you? -Hmm.
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  Well, it might be better to go in the morning.
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  You can call your aunt from the hotel.
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  -Dan?
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  You sure you don't mind going to Evanston?
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  I mean, I just couldn't possibly be a few miles away
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  and not see Aunt Clara.
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  Besides, I want to show off my new husband to somebody,
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  and she's all the family I have.
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  -Was she your mother's sister?
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  -No, no. My father's.
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  She came east when my parents were killed in that crash.
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  Stayed with me for a month or so.
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  That was about the most that either one of us could stand.
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  -She sounds like a holy terror.
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  -Oh, no. She's just crotchety, that's all.
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  But she'll only be more crotchety if she learns
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  that I passed through Chicago and didn't even stop by.
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  ♪♪
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  -Well, and what kind of work are you in, Mr. Carey?
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  -Well, right now we like to say we're management consultants,
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  Mrs. Rowland,
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  but we also do quite a bit of executive recruitment.
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  -I don't understand a word of that.
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  -Dan helps corporations find the right people
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  for important jobs, Aunt Clara.
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  His firm is the biggest in the field.
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  Isn't it, Dan?
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  -Well, it's always hard to measure a business like ours.
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  -But it has offices everywhere, doesn't it?
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  -In most of the major cities, yes.
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  -Now, Dan is going to take over the branch
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  in San Francisco.
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  He's going to manage the entire thing.
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  -Is that some kind of a promotion?
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  -Well, of course it is.
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  -I asked the gentleman, Susan, speak when you're spoken to.
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  -Oh, sorry.
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  -Yes, Mrs. Rowland, it is a promotion.
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  Truth is, it's a job
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  that everyone in my office has been after.
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  -Oh, it's just worked out so beautifully for us.
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  I mean, Dan having to move to San Francisco.
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  We're sort of combining a business trip
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  with a cross-country honeymoon.
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  -And where do you go from here?
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  -Well, we're planning to stay two days in Chicago,
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  and then we're going to Dallas.
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  -We're going across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
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  I know a great little hotel in Monterey.
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  -And we're going to Las Vegas. -To gamble, I suppose.
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  -Well, it's no fun going to Las Vegas
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  if you don't gamble a little.
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  -Your father never gambled for so much as a dime, Susan.
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  That wasn't the way he made his fortune.
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  -Well, I promise not to bankrupt the family, Aunt Clara.
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  Anyway, we're just staying in Las Vegas overnight
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  and then going to Los Angeles.
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  -Three days later, I report to work.
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  -Thoroughly exhausted, of course.
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  -Well, if that's your idea of a honeymoon,
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  I hope you enjoy it.
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  Oh, Susan, I suppose lunch is almost ready.
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  You want to help me bring it out?
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  -Oh, yes, of course.
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  -Kitchen's this way, in case you've forgotten.
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  -The truth is, I have. -[ Footsteps ]
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  -I'm glad to be able to talk to you alone
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  -for a minute, Susan. -Did you like Dan, Aunt Clara?
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  -Isn't he good-looking? -Older than you, isn't he?
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  -What difference does that make?
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  -How long did you know him?
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  -Oh, we -- we met at a party at the Williamsons.
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  Do you remember my friend Tracy Williamson?
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  -Didn't ask you where you met?
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  I'm asking you when?
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  -Well, it was about three weeks ago.
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  -Three weeks?
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  Oh, for the love of heaven, Susan.
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  -Aunt Clara,
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  the time you know somebody isn't always the most important thing.
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  -He's practically a stranger.
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  How can you be sure of anything about a man
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  -you've known for three weeks? -[ Sighs ]
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  From the time we met, I saw Dan every single day.
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  -Susan, when a girl is all alone in the world,
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  when she has independent means of her own--
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  -Please Addie, don't start in about Dan
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  being a fortune hunter.
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  I don't have that much money. And it's all in trust anyway.
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  And I assure you,
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  Dan earns enough income to take care of us both very well.
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  -Well, I'm sorry, Susan,
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  I know I don't have any control over what you do.
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  You're too old for that.
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  But I've seen something of the world, too, you know?
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  And the most important lesson I've ever learned
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  is never trust a stranger.
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  -Oh, Aunt Clara, that's ridiculous.
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  Now, can we bring out the lunch?
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  ♪♪
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  ♪♪
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  -I don't know. I just -- I just have the feeling
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  that Chicago wasn't all you expected it to be.
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  -Well, we weren't there very long, Dan.
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  And don't forget,
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  we -- we spent half the time with your business associates.
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  -Oh, honey, I am sorry about that.
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  I suppose I never should have called Bill Kincaid
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  to say we're in town.
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  I should have known he'd insist on getting together.
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  -Oh, it wasn't that bad.
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  I just didn't know what he was talking about half the time.
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  All those office politics.
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  -Yes, well, Bill loves to gossip,
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  but you can see what I mean about the San Francisco job.
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  Everybody in the company wanted it.
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  They'll never get over resenting me for being picked.
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  But I am sorry if you were bored.
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  -It's all right, Dan. Really.
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  After all, I inflicted Aunt Clara on you.
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  -She was okay.
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  -Well, I know you didn't find her very friendly.
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  -Well, why should she be?
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  I think she's a very protective type.
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  Anybody you married would get her jaundiced eye.
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  -Yes, I suppose that's true enough,
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  Dan, how long did you know Terry Williamson?
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  -Who? -Terry. My ex-roommate.
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  We met each other at her house.
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  Or have you forgotten that already?
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  -Tell you the truth, darling.
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  I didn't know whose house I was at that night.
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  -Oh, so Terry wasn't the one who invited you?
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  -No, it was a man named Bob Chambers,
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  one of the executive types that got placed at General Utilities.
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  Don't ask me who invited him, because I don't know.
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  -I see.
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  So it was all sort of a round about.
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  -What's the difference?
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  It still turned out to be the best party I ever attended.
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  -Yeah. -Hey. Something the matter?
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  -Oh, no, of course not. Nothing at all.
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  Uh, Dan, where did you say we were staying in Dallas?
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  -It's a little hotel called the Lazy C.
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  It's kind of rustic, but I think you'll like it.
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  Besides, we'll only be there one night.
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  We'll rent a car in the morning and drive down to Monterey.
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  -You really know all the offbeat places, don't you?
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  -Well, when you travel around enough,
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  I-I guess you begin looking for them.
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  -You haven't done that much traveling on the job, have you?
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  -Huh? Well, no, not that much. [Scoffs]
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  Say, do you know the name of the airport in Dallas?
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  -Um, I forget. -It's called Love Field.
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  Isn't that a great name for honeymooners?
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  -Yes.
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  ♪♪
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  ♪♪
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  -Hi, Susan.
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  -Oh, there you are. I was starting to worry.
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  -No, I had a little trouble with the phone lines back
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  to New York, but I got through okay.
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  -Everything all right?
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  -Yeah, sure. Everything's fine.
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  Hey, you look a little strange, though.
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  -Oh, no. I'm all right.
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  I had a drink while I was waiting for you.
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  -Say, you better watch that tequila.
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  It sneaks up on you like a bandido.
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  -Actually...
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  ...something sort of funny happened.
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  -What do you mean? -Dan?
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  When we were in Chicago, in that --
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  in that restaurant, I forget the name of it.
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  -The place we went to with Bill?
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  -Yes. When you and your friend were talking about all
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  the office politics back in New York,
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  I saw this -- this man looking at us.
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  -What man? -Well, he was at the bar.
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  I'm not even sure why I noticed him.
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  He was wearing this plaid raincoat.
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  I remember wondering if it had started to rain.
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  -I guess you were just bored with all our talk.
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  -Anyway, I saw him turn to look at us.
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  -Probably to look at you. Can't blame him for that.
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  -The funny thing is, as soon as you turned around,
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  he got up very quickly and left.
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  -Susan, I don't remember seeing anyone in a plaid raincoat,
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  and I'm afraid I don't see anything unusual about it.
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  -Well, I guess I didn't either.
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  I probably wouldn't have given it another thought, but I --
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  I think I saw that same man here again today.
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  -In Monterey?
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  -Oh. You're kidding. -I can't swear it was him.
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  I didn't get a good look at his face the first time.
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  All I really noticed was the coat.
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  -And you saw the coat again? Is that it?
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  -Yes. He was carrying it over his arm.
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  -Oh, darling, you know the story about the airport truck?
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  -Airport truck? No.
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  -Well, this guy on a plane looks out the window
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  and sees one of those little red airport trucks,
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  you know, fueling the plane, bringing food aboard,
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  something like that.
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  Anyway, the plane takes off from New York and lands in Chicago.
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  Another little red truck comes out to meet it.
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  The guy next to him says, "Hey, we made good time, didn't we?"
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  And he says,
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  "Yeah, but that little red truck really made time."
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  Well, I can see that I didn't marry a great audience.
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  -Oh, I'm sorry, Dan.
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  It's -- It's just, it bothered me a little.
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  -Oh, forget it.
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  And speaking of airports, next up, the City of Angels.
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  ♪♪
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  -Let's see.
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  I wonder if they have this week's digest.
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  Oh, I see it.
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  -Excuse me. -Yes.
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  -You're Mrs. Daniel Carey, aren't you?
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  -Why, yes, I am.
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  Do I know you?
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  -No, Mrs. Carey, but I know you.
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  Saw your husband leaving the hotel about half an hour ago.
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  Were you planning on meeting him?
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  -Oh, wait a minute. I've seen you before.
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  -Have you?
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  -You're the man with the coat, the plaid raincoat.
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  -Well, you happen to be right.
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  I do own a plaid raincoat, but with this nice sunny weather--
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  -Excuse me.
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  -Look, Mrs. Carey, I know it seems as if I'm following you.
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  -Yes, it does.
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  -Well, okay, it's true, but I've had a reason.
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  -Such as?
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  -Could we talk about it someplace?
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  There's a coffee shop in the hotel.
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  -I'm sorry. I don't even know who you are.
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  -Maybe it would help if I introduced myself.
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  My name is Harrington.
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  Lieutenant Gale Harrington,
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  attached to the New York City Police Department.
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  -Police? -That's right, Mrs. Carey.
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  So you see,
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  what I have to discuss with you is police business.
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  -But what? What have I done? -It's nothing you've done.
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  It concerns your husband,
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  and what he might do.
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  ♪♪
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  ♪♪
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  -It looks like Dan and Susan Carey's honeymoon
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  is in for a surprise.
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  Or perhaps more than one.
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  Maybe Susan will soon wonder
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  if her Aunt Clara wasn't right about a number of things,
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  including her cynical advice about trusting no strangers.
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  We'll find out about the new stranger in Susan's life
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  when I return shortly with Act Two.
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• 18:58
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• 19:03
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• 19:06
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• 19:11
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  ♪♪
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  ♪♪
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  -In the pleasant,
• 19:44
  cheerful atmosphere of a coffee shop
• 19:46
  in a large Los Angeles hotel,
• 19:49
  newlywed Susan Carey finds herself facing a man
• 19:53
  she has never seen before,
• 19:56
  a man whose solemn eyes look at her
• 19:59
  over a steaming cup of coffee
• 20:01
  and seem to warn her of nightmares to come.
• 20:06
  But so far,
• 20:09
  Lieutenant Gail Harrington of the New York Police Department
• 20:12
  is merely asking questions.
• 20:16
  -How long have you been married now?
• 20:19
  -Only about 10 days.
• 20:20
  -Was it a long engagement?
• 20:23
  Did you know your husband for some time before?
• 20:25
  -No, no, not very long.
• 20:27
  -Well, could you -- could you be more specific?
• 20:30
  How long ago did you meet him?
• 20:32
  And where?
• 20:34
  -Well, it's a month now.
• 20:37
  -Just about that. -A month? Hmm.
• 20:39
  Then you really don't know much about him, do you?
• 20:41
  -Oh, you and Aunt Clara. -Beg pardon?
• 20:44
  Lieutenant, will you please tell me what this is about?
• 20:47
  Has my husband committed some crime?
• 20:49
  Is that what you're implying?
• 20:50
  -I didn't say that, Mrs. Carey.
• 20:52
  But believe me, it would be helpful to both of us
• 20:56
  if you could just tell me a little bit
• 20:58
  about the circumstances.
• 21:00
  -You know, I don't see why this has to be so one-sided.
• 21:03
  -Now, please bear with me.
• 21:05
  -All right.
• 21:07
  I met Dan at a party at a friend's house
• 21:10
  about a month ago.
• 21:11
  We talked a lot. We liked each other.
• 21:14
  We started dating. I saw him every single day.
• 21:16
  -What business did he tell you he's in?
• 21:18
  -Oh, you make it sound as if he lied to me.
• 21:20
  -No, I didn't mean to do that.
• 21:21
  -He's a management consultant. I know he is.
• 21:24
  He's just gotten a very important job in San Francisco.
• 21:27
  Head of the entire office. We're going there tomorrow.
• 21:30
  -So that was the purpose of the trip?
• 21:32
  -Yes.
• 21:34
  -But since you've been married ten days,
• 21:36
  I gather it's a honeymoon as well.
• 21:39
  -Well, naturally it is. -Yes, naturally.
• 21:42
  -Lieutenant.
• 21:43
  -Mrs. Carey, do you know if your husband was ever married before?
• 21:45
  -Married? No! -Are you really certain?
• 21:49
  -Now, wait a minute.
• 21:51
  Are you trying to tell me that Dan's a bigamist or something?
• 21:53
  -No, Mrs. Carey, certainly not that.
• 21:54
  -Then what is it? -I've got to tell you.
• 21:58
  But you have to -- have to understand one thing.
• 22:01
  Now, I am not assigned to this case anymore.
• 22:03
  My interest is strictly unofficial.
• 22:07
  I may be completely mistaken,
• 22:09
  but you're the only one who can prove it one way or another.
• 22:11
  -Prove what?
• 22:13
  -About whether your husband ever called himself Don Crawford.
• 22:18
  And once, four years ago, David Chase.
• 22:22
  See? All the same initials, like Dan Carey.
• 22:28
  -You are saying he's a criminal.
• 22:30
  -Not just a criminal, Mrs. Carey...a wife killer.
• 22:35
  -[Gasps] You're crazy. -I hope so, believe me, I do.
• 22:39
  Let me start at the beginning.
• 22:42
  If you still think I'm crazy by the time I'm finished,
• 22:44
  I'll be happy to buy that coffee and go on my way.
• 22:47
  But if you think I'm not.
• 22:49
  If you have any doubts, then I want you to tell me so.
• 22:52
  And let me help you.
• 22:54
  -All right. Go on. I know you're wrong, but go on.
• 23:00
  -I first heard of Don Crawford back in 1965,
• 23:03
  when I was attached to the homicide detail
• 23:05
  in Los Angeles P.D.
• 23:08
  Mrs. Crawford was the former Edith Burbank.
• 23:10
  She was the youngest daughter of a wealthy family in Baltimore.
• 23:14
  Only when I saw her,
• 23:16
  she was never going to enjoy her money anymore.
• 23:18
  She was dead.
• 23:20
  Her throat had been cut by one of those,
• 23:23
  quote, "mysterious intruders," unquote,
• 23:26
  that the papers liked to write about.
• 23:29
  Her husband, Don, was broken hearted, naturally.
• 23:32
  They'd only been married four weeks,
• 23:34
  but her death also made him some money.
• 23:39
  Not a fortune, really.
• 23:42
  There was a mix-up about her will,
• 23:45
  and he ended up with nothing
• 23:47
  but a handsome payoff from the family.
• 23:48
  Mrs. Carey, are you okay?
• 23:52
  -I... [ Scoffs ]
• 23:54
  I can't believe I'm sitting here listening to this.
• 23:57
  -I won't be long, I promise.
• 23:59
  Anyway, I was assigned to the Crawford case,
• 24:02
  and I didn't exactly cover myself with glory.
• 24:05
  -You mean you never found the mysterious intruder?
• 24:07
  -That's right.
• 24:10
  -So naturally, you decided that maybe there wasn't any.
• 24:12
  -[Sighs] Let me go on, Mrs. Carey.
• 24:14
  -Okay? -Yes, yes. Go on.
• 24:17
  -Anyway, I ran into a similar case about four years ago.
• 24:21
  The murder of a young bride fresh from her honeymoon,
• 24:24
  a brokenhearted groom named David Chase.
• 24:28
  I thought Chase and Crawford were one and the same man.
• 24:32
  But I couldn't convince the district attorney
• 24:34
  of the resemblance.
• 24:36
  But I am still convinced, Mrs. Carey.
• 24:40
  -And you think Dan is the same person?
• 24:43
  -Oh, he's changed again, of course.
• 24:45
  His hair is lighter than Chase's.
• 24:46
  He's thinner and paler.
• 24:49
  But there's something about the face I can't forget.
• 24:52
  -And even if it's true, you still have no proof.
• 24:54
  Is that it?
• 24:56
  You couldn't solve your case,
• 24:57
  so you're holding on to your first solution.
• 24:59
  -Wait, Mrs. Carey,
• 25:01
  let me tell you why I was so sure that Crawford and Chase
• 25:04
  were the same man. It was because of the honeymoon.
• 25:07
  -What?
• 25:08
  -It's my theory that their honeymoons were identical.
• 25:11
  A compulsive honeymoon, you might say.
• 25:14
  -Oh, that is ridiculous.
• 25:17
  -Criminals are like that, creatures of habit most of them.
• 25:19
  Afraid to change a pattern.
• 25:22
  Maybe for fear that their luck will change with it.
• 25:24
  -But what do you mean by it?
• 25:27
  -I stumbled on the coincidence accidentally,
• 25:29
  but as far as I could trace it, Don Crawford and David Chase
• 25:34
  took their brides to the same places.
• 25:36
  They did the same things,
• 25:39
  and I knew that if I ever saw that pattern duplicated,
• 25:42
  I would have my killer.
• 25:45
  I hope I'm wrong, Mrs. Carey,
• 25:47
  but you are the only one who can tell me.
• 25:52
  And my first question is...
• 25:55
  Was your first stop, Chicago?
• 25:58
  -Yes. Yes, of course it was. And you knew that.
• 26:03
  That's where we first saw you in Chicago in that restaurant.
• 26:05
  -Okay. Okay. I just wanted to make sure.
• 26:09
  -You can't possibly make something out of that.
• 26:12
  Dan wanted to see people in the Chicago office,
• 26:15
  and I thought it would be nice to visit my aunt in Evanston.
• 26:18
  She's my family.
• 26:20
  -Was your next stop after Chicago in Texas?
• 26:24
  -Yes. We went to Dallas.
• 26:26
  Dallas is a wonderful place to visit, Lieutenant.
• 26:29
  I don't see anything so peculiar about that.
• 26:31
  -Both Chase and Crawford went to Dallas.
• 26:33
  They chose offbeat hotels.
• 26:36
  I guess they didn't care to be seen very much.
• 26:40
  Where did you stay in Dallas?
• 26:41
  -It was a perfectly nice hotel.
• 26:43
  I-I don't think you could describe it as offbeat.
• 26:46
  -[ Sighs deeply ] All right.
• 26:50
  And then the next stop would be Monterey.
• 26:53
  -You knew we were in Monterey,
• 26:54
  because that's where I saw you the second time.
• 26:56
  -By that time, Mrs. Carey,
• 26:57
  I'd made up my mind to follow you.
• 27:00
  -Are you saying that these -- these supposed wife killers
• 27:03
  you're talking about also went to Monterey?
• 27:05
  -Yes, they did. And from Monterey to Las Vegas.
• 27:08
  -Well, then you're wrong, Lieutenant.
• 27:12
  You're completely wrong.
• 27:14
  -You mean you didn't go to Vegas?
• 27:15
  -No.
• 27:17
  So there goes your famous theory, doesn't it?
• 27:20
  -Well... -I-I admit I'm surprised.
• 27:24
  -We changed our mind about Vegas.
• 27:25
  We decided that we might be too tempted
• 27:27
  to gamble away all the money we had for the trip.
• 27:29
  -Ah, so you did have it on the schedule?
• 27:32
  -Well, yes. Yes, we did, but we didn't go.
• 27:36
  -[Scoffs] You really think that changes the pattern?
• 27:41
  The fact that you didn't go.
• 27:43
  -Oh, please, I -- I can't stand any more of this.
• 27:46
  I-I don't want to hear any more of it!
• 27:48
  -Mrs. Carey, Edith Burbank was killed in Los Angeles
• 27:52
  in her hotel room, this hotel.
• 27:54
  -I'm leaving. I'm leaving.
• 27:56
  -I'm leaving right now! -Mrs. Carey, wait.
• 27:58
  -You're wrong, you're wrong.
• 27:59
  You've got Dan mixed up with someone else.
• 28:00
  -Let me finish, please. Just one more moment.
• 28:02
  -Oh, please. No! No, no! Please! Let me go!
• 28:05
  ♪♪
• 28:12
  [ Door opens ]
• 28:13
  -Well, there you are. -[ Door closes ]
• 28:15
  -Oh, I didn't realize that you were back already.
• 28:20
  -Yeah. I told you I wouldn't be gone more than half an hour.
• 28:23
  I -- I thought you'd be in the room.
• 28:26
  -I -- I went downstairs to get a magazine.
• 28:29
  -Didn't they have any? [ Laughs ]
• 28:31
  -Well, I -- I guess I forgot to buy one.
• 28:34
  I got to looking in the windows of the dress shops
• 28:38
  and I forgot my original purpose completely.
• 28:40
  -Susan...are -- are you okay? -Of course.
• 28:45
  -Why do you ask? -I don't know. You've --
• 28:49
  You've got that funny look in your eyes again.
• 28:52
  -Have I? -It doesn't matter.
• 28:55
  They're still the two most beautiful eyes in the world.
• 28:59
  Hey, what is this?
• 29:01
  Don't tell me the honeymoon is over so soon?
• 29:04
  -Now, why do you say that?
• 29:07
  -That was like kissing a snowman.
• 29:10
  -I guess I -- I just don't feel like myself today.
• 29:15
  I think maybe, well,
• 29:17
  all this traveling has worn me down a little.
• 29:19
  -Oh, I am -- I'm sorry.
• 29:21
  Well, we don't have much further to go.
• 29:23
  Just one more plane trip to San Francisco.
• 29:26
  -Yes.
• 29:28
  -Look, maybe you'd rather not go out tonight.
• 29:31
  Maybe you ought to stay in order.
• 29:32
  Some dinner in the room, I don't mind.
• 29:34
  -But you wanted to go to that restaurant,
• 29:36
  the one you told me about.
• 29:38
  You've been looking forward to it.
• 29:39
  -The Landmark? Yeah, yeah.
• 29:41
  Well, I did want to try the place.
• 29:42
  Food's supposed to be really spectacular.
• 29:45
  -But you've never eaten there before?
• 29:47
  -Well, no, how could I? I've never been in LA before.
• 29:50
  -I was thinking today that,
• 29:52
  well, you seem to know the city so well.
• 29:55
  When we drove around you --
• 29:57
  you didn't seem to have the slightest trouble.
• 29:59
  -Streets are very well marked in this town.
• 30:01
  It's really a pleasure to drive here.
• 30:04
  I -- Look... you know what I think?
• 30:08
  I think you ought to take a nap before dinner.
• 30:12
  -Yes, I was thinking of lying down,
• 30:15
  but I don't think I can sleep.
• 30:18
  -Okay, then. Just -- Just read your magazine.
• 30:22
  Wait a minute. You haven't got one.
• 30:23
  -I'll take care of that. -Where are you going?
• 30:26
  -Going to get my bride something to read.
• 30:29
  How about a nice magazine about cooking?
• 30:31
  You know, I never did ask you if you can cook.
• 30:34
  -Just get me a news magazine of some kind, all right?
• 30:37
  -Uh-huh, the brainy type.
• 30:40
  I should have known. See you in 10 minutes.
• 30:43
  I'll take the key, so -- so you won't have to get up.
• 30:46
  -Yes. All right. -[ Door opens ]
• 30:48
  ♪♪
• 30:52
  -Oh, dear God.
• 30:55
  It can't be true.
• 30:58
  It just can't be any truth to what that man said.
• 31:00
  He's -- He's made a mistake.
• 31:03
  A terrible mistake.
• 31:08
  Dan's luggage. His initials D.C.
• 31:13
  Oh, but anyone could have those initials, anyone.
• 31:18
  -I wonder if... -[ Latch clicks ]
• 31:20
  It's open.
• 31:24
  Oh, for heaven's sake. What am I doing?
• 31:27
  Searching my husband's luggage like --
• 31:29
  like some kind of hotel thief.
• 31:33
  -No, I won't do it. I won't. -[ Latch clicks ]
• 31:40
  I'm not going to believe any of it.
• 31:42
  -I won't. -[ Phone rings ]
• 31:44
  [ Gasps ]
• 31:45
  Who's that?
• 31:50
  Hello.
• 31:51
  -Mrs. Carey. It's Gail Harrington.
• 31:54
  -Leave me alone. Stop bothering me.
• 31:56
  -You shouldn't have run off like that, Mrs. Carey.
• 31:59
  You didn't give me a chance to finish what I was saying.
• 32:02
  -I told you, I don't want to hear any more.
• 32:04
  It isn't true.
• 32:06
  You've made a mistake, Lieutenant.
• 32:08
  -Your husband is at the newsstand right now, Mrs. Carey.
• 32:12
  I can see him from where I'm standing at the house phones.
• 32:16
  And the more I look at him, the more sure I am that I'm right.
• 32:19
  -No, you're wrong!
• 32:21
  -I want you to hear the rest of the story
• 32:22
  about Crawford and David Chase,
• 32:25
  and what they did on their honeymoon.
• 32:28
  Maybe what I told you before didn't convince you.
• 32:31
  But if you heard a few more things.
• 32:32
  -I'm going to hang up, Lieutenant, right now.
• 32:34
  -I wanted you to know where Don Crawford took his wife
• 32:37
  the night she was murdered in her room.
• 32:40
  He took her to a restaurant called the Landmark.
• 32:43
  You ever hear of it? Mrs. Carey?
• 32:47
  Hey, are you listening?
• 32:49
  -No. No, I'm not listening. I won't listen.
• 32:52
  ♪♪
• 32:58
  ♪♪
• 33:03
  -And so Susan Carey seems to have a date
• 33:07
  at the Landmark restaurant in Los Angeles
• 33:09
  with her loving husband, Dan.
• 33:12
  If she keeps the date, something tells me
• 33:17
  that she's not going to do their cuisine very much justice,
• 33:21
  because one needs peace of mind to enjoy good food.
• 33:27
  Fear affects the salivary glands and terror ruins the taste buds.
• 33:34
  I'll be back shortly with Act Three.
• 33:39
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• 34:16
  ♪♪
• 34:22
  -Well, what have we here?
• 34:25
  A quiet meal for two at the Landmark restaurant?
• 34:29
  No, we seem to be in a hotel room,
• 34:33
  the same room in which we last saw our honeymooning couple,
• 34:37
  Susan and Dan Carey.
• 34:39
  Obviously, there's been a change of plan.
• 34:42
  Room service has provided the meal
• 34:44
  for the two lovers this evening.
• 34:47
  Can it be that Susan Carey has decided
• 34:50
  that if there is a pattern, it must be broken?
• 34:54
  -Have some more wine, honey?
• 34:56
  -No, I really don't think I want any.
• 34:59
  -Hey, come on. You know what this bottle cost?
• 35:03
  -You shouldn't have been so extravagant.
• 35:06
  -I just wanted to make up --
• 35:09
  Well, never mind.
• 35:11
  -You mean for not taking me to the Landmark?
• 35:14
  -No, it doesn't really matter.
• 35:16
  I told you it's -- it's fun to eat in the room.
• 35:19
  It's very elegant.
• 35:20
  -I'm sure you were disappointed.
• 35:22
  -No, I-I really wasn't.
• 35:24
  Look, we're not going to be very far from Los Angeles.
• 35:27
  We'll probably fly down from San Francisco a few times a year.
• 35:30
  -There are dozens of wonderful restaurants in San Francisco,
• 35:32
  too, aren't there?
• 35:33
  -So they tell me.
• 35:35
  I'll ask the guys at the office for recommendations.
• 35:37
  -I think this food is quite good, don't you?
• 35:40
  -Yeah, sure. It's -- It's fine.
• 35:43
  Tastes even better with the wine.
• 35:45
  -Well, all right, I'll have some more, I guess.
• 35:47
  -That a girl.
• 35:50
  Now, look, I'm not trying to get you drunk, you understand,
• 35:53
  so I can take advantage of you.
• 35:55
  Although you look very delectable in that robe.
• 35:58
  -Oh, do you really like it?
• 36:00
  -Irresistible.
• 36:02
  -I didn't take much of a wardrobe with me.
• 36:04
  -You said you were going to buy clothes in San Francisco.
• 36:07
  -Yes, if I can find out where to go, I--
• 36:09
  -I'll take you down to Union Square.
• 36:11
  I hear that's the place.
• 36:12
  Oh, I have told you about the weekend, haven't I?
• 36:15
  -No. What about it?
• 36:18
  -Well, I thought we'd get our first look at the town
• 36:20
  by taking one of those Circle Line cruises.
• 36:22
  Is that okay with you?
• 36:24
  -Oh, yes. That -- That sounds lovely.
• 36:25
  -And-- -I love to see places by water.
• 36:27
  -And if we can squeeze it in,
• 36:29
  we might go picnicking in Golden Gate Park.
• 36:31
  They've got this Japanese tea garden
• 36:33
  that's supposed to be very nice.
• 36:35
  -Yes. It all sounds wonderful, Dan.
• 36:39
  -Susan, I -- I just wish you felt better.
• 36:44
  Listen. Maybe you ought to check with the hotel doctor
• 36:47
  in case you picked up a bug or something.
• 36:49
  -Do I look that bad to you? -No.
• 36:52
  You look just great to me...darling.
• 36:55
  ♪♪
• 37:05
  Yeah, I think that'd be a good idea, honey.
• 37:06
  Reserve the car ahead of time,
• 37:08
  then we can pick it up right away in San Francisco.
• 37:10
  -Whatever you think, Dan.
• 37:11
  -You wait right here. I'll go over to the counter.
• 37:13
  -Yes. All right. -Be back in 10 minutes.
• 37:15
  -All right, Dan. -...from gate 12.
• 37:20
  -Mrs. Carey.
• 37:22
  -Oh, no. Not you again. -I didn't mean to startle you.
• 37:27
  -Go away. Please go away.
• 37:29
  I don't want to see you anymore
• 37:30
  or hear anything you have to say.
• 37:32
  -I know that I seem to be persecuting you or something.
• 37:36
  -As you can see, Lieutenant, I am in perfectly good health.
• 37:40
  I was not murdered in my sleep in that hotel room.
• 37:42
  -Look, Mrs. Carey,
• 37:44
  I've only got a few minutes before your husband gets back.
• 37:46
  I just wanted to finish my story about this other guy,
• 37:49
  this David Chase.
• 37:51
  -I don't care if you are a policeman.
• 37:53
  I'll call someone and have you arrested for bothering me.
• 37:55
  -David Chase's wife didn't get killed in Los Angeles.
• 37:59
  She died in San Francisco.
• 38:01
  -Where? In her hotel room? No, not there.
• 38:03
  But they stayed at the San Remo. Is that where you're staying?
• 38:08
  -Yes. But millions of people do.
• 38:10
  -No, there wasn't any mysterious intruder this time.
• 38:14
  In fact,
• 38:15
  Mrs. Chase's death was listed officially as an accident.
• 38:18
  She had a little too much to drink at dinner,
• 38:21
  and her feet got tangled up on top of a very steep hill.
• 38:25
  -The fall broke her neck. -Oh, no.
• 38:27
  -It was her very first day in San Francisco.
• 38:30
  She and her husband had quite a day, too.
• 38:32
  They took one of those boat cruises to see the city.
• 38:35
  Then they went to Golden Gate Park,
• 38:37
  to the Japanese Tea Garden.
• 38:39
  Mrs. Carey, are you okay?
• 38:43
  -No.
• 38:46
  No, I'm -- I'm not okay.
• 38:51
  How could I be?
• 38:52
  -That night, they went to a restaurant called the Vendome.
• 38:56
  That's where the lady drank too much.
• 38:58
  At least according to her husband.
• 38:59
  -Oh, dear God.
• 39:01
  -Listen, Mrs. Carey, I can't follow you anymore.
• 39:02
  I've got a job to get back to.
• 39:04
  -I want you to take this. -A gun?
• 39:07
  Quiet! Don't draw anyone's attention to us.
• 39:09
  Just take it.
• 39:10
  If I'm wrong and you don't need it, fine.
• 39:12
  -Just throw it away. -No, I don't want it.
• 39:15
  I cannot have you on my conscience.
• 39:17
  Don't you understand?
• 39:19
  -All right.
• 39:22
  Yes, all right. I'll take it.
• 39:26
  I still say you're wrong.
• 39:28
  -I hope so, but I don't think I am.
• 39:31
  ♪♪
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  [ Phone rings ]
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  -Hello. -Mrs. Carey?
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  -Yes? -This is the message desk.
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  Your husband left a message here for you at 4:00.
• 39:47
  -Oh, I've been out until now.
• 39:49
  -Hey, would you like me to read it to you?
• 39:50
  -Uh. Yes, please.
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  -It says, "Will be at the office until 6:00.
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  Should be there no later than 6:30. Love, Dan."
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  -Oh, yes. Thank you very much. -You're welcome. Bye.
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  -Bye. -[ Phone hangs up ]
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  ♪♪
• 40:08
  6:30. It's 6:20 now. Oh, God.
• 40:15
  Why do I keep staring at his luggage?
• 40:19
  Why can't I just forget about it?
• 40:24
  No.
• 40:27
  It isn't dishonest.
• 40:28
  It's just something I have to do.
• 40:32
  [ Latch clicks ]
• 40:35
  No, no, no, nothing in this one but clothing.
• 40:41
  This one has papers and things.
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  All his documents.
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  Birth certificate.
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  Honorable discharge, US Navy.
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  Daniel Eldon Carey, that is his name.
• 40:58
  It is. That man Harrington was wrong.
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  Doesn't this mean he was wrong, or does it just mean that?
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  No, I'm not going to start thinking that way.
• 41:14
  These look like...photographs.
• 41:18
  Maybe his family.
• 41:20
  Oh, no. Wait.
• 41:21
  This picture has signs. You pretty girl.
• 41:25
  "To Dan, all my love forever, Edith."
• 41:33
  [ Gasps ] What was the name he said?
• 41:36
  That policeman.
• 41:37
  What was the name of that man's wife?
• 41:39
  Was -- Wasn't it Edith? [ Gasps ]
• 41:41
  -[ Doorbell buzzing ] -Oh, no.
• 41:47
  -Who is it? -It's me, honey.
• 41:50
  -Oh. Uh, one second.
• 41:53
  -[ Footsteps ] -[ Door opens ]
• 41:55
  -Hi, sweetheart.
• 41:57
  Sorry, I forgot to take my key.
• 42:00
  Hey, I'm not late, am I?
• 42:02
  I told him at the desk I'd be back at 6:30.
• 42:04
  Well, it's not even that.
• 42:06
  Hey, why is it so dark in here? Susan?
• 42:09
  -Oh, I just -- I just got back myself.
• 42:12
  I-I didn't think of turning on all the lights.
• 42:16
  -Susan, I have a confession to make.
• 42:19
  I wasn't at the office at all.
• 42:21
  My new staff thought they ought to christen the new boss.
• 42:25
  I tell you one thing about San Francisco.
• 42:27
  It's a hard-drinking town. [ Laughs ]
• 42:33
  Susan.
• 42:35
  What's the matter?
• 42:38
  -Dan.
• 42:41
  -I found her picture. -What?
• 42:45
  I found her picture.
• 42:48
  Your first wife's.
• 42:50
  -What are you talking about?
• 42:52
  I was never married.
• 42:54
  -Then what's her picture doing in your luggage?
• 42:57
  -Hey, hey, hey, what's going on here?
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  -You must be drunker than I am. -Don't come near me.
• 43:02
  Stay away from me, Dan!
• 43:04
  -Susan, are you out of your head?
• 43:05
  -I saw her picture. Do you hear me?
• 43:08
  I found her picture on our honeymoon.
• 43:11
  -Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 43:13
  Do you mean Edith?
• 43:15
  -I know all about her. Yes, and about the other one.
• 43:17
  She drank too much too, didn't she?
• 43:20
  She was drunk too.
• 43:22
  -Now, look, will you calm down?
• 43:24
  -Is that what you were planning to do tonight?
• 43:25
  Get me drunk at the restaurant.
• 43:29
  You were going to take me out to dinner tonight, weren't you?
• 43:31
  -Of course I was. I asked one of the guys at the--
• 43:33
  -I can tell you the restaurant he picked.
• 43:36
  Do you want me to tell you the name of the restaurant, Dan?
• 43:39
  It's the Vendome, isn't it?
• 43:41
  -Well, what? Well, yes, I mean it is.
• 43:49
  How did you know that?
• 43:51
  -Because I know it all. I know everything.
• 43:53
  Oh! No, no, no, don't! No, don't come near me.
• 43:56
  -I'll call the police. -Now, Susan, look.
• 43:58
  -I don't know what the trouble is, but you've got to be sick.
• 44:01
  -You need help. -No, don't come any closer!
• 44:03
  -You've been acting funny ever since we left Chicago.
• 44:04
  -I'm warning you. Look, look!
• 44:07
  -My God.
• 44:09
  -I've got a gun. -Susan, put that down.
• 44:10
  -I'm not going to end up like them.
• 44:11
  -Give me that thing, Susan.
• 44:14
  -Don't. Oh, don't, Dan, please. -Susan!
• 44:16
  -I don't want to shoot you! -[ Gunshot ]
• 44:18
  -[ Groans ]
• 44:19
  ♪♪
• 44:26
  [ Door buzzes ]
• 44:28
  -One second. -[ Door opens ]
• 44:32
  -Well. -Mr. Harvey.
• 44:37
  -Mrs. Carey, I didn't know that you were.
• 44:40
  Um, look, let me just get a shirt on.
• 44:43
  I was just shaving.
• 44:45
  -I'm sure you're surprised to see me, aren't you?
• 44:47
  -Yeah, yeah, I am, I -- I didn't expect that you'd, uh.
• 44:52
  What -- What brings you back to LA?
• 44:54
  -I'm sure you know, Mr. Harvey,
• 44:57
  that is the right name, isn't it?
• 44:58
  Not Harrington.
• 45:02
  -I guess that means you know all about my little joke.
• 45:05
  -The gun wasn't a joke, was it?
• 45:08
  The gun was real.
• 45:09
  -Now, look, I can tell you're upset,
• 45:10
  but I didn't mean any harm.
• 45:12
  I mean, I like Dan, I really do.
• 45:14
  -You despised my husband, Mr. Harvey.
• 45:17
  Why don't you admit it?
• 45:19
  You hated the fact that he got the job
• 45:21
  you wanted in San Francisco,
• 45:23
  and all you got was an assistant manager's job in Chicago.
• 45:26
  -You are wrong.
• 45:28
  I just thought it would be a good gag.
• 45:30
  A good joke on Danny Boy.
• 45:31
  -Yes, I've heard about your reputation.
• 45:34
  The great practical joker.
• 45:37
  You thought of a great one this time.
• 45:38
  -Yeah, but that's all it was.
• 45:40
  -You gave Dan the itinerary for our honeymoon trip.
• 45:44
  You were just being helpful, of course.
• 45:47
  You gave him all the names and places.
• 45:49
  All the benefit of your traveling experience.
• 45:52
  -That was the gag.
• 45:54
  See, I thought if Dan took you to all the places
• 45:55
  I listed for him.
• 45:57
  -You even knew about Edith, the girl he was once engaged to,
• 45:59
  the one who died.
• 46:01
  She became his murder victim in your little fantasy.
• 46:05
  What did you think would happen, Mr. Harvey?
• 46:07
  That I'd get frightened enough to kill Dan,
• 46:09
  so that you might get the job he took away from you?
• 46:11
  -Listen, is -- is -- is -- is Dan all right?
• 46:15
  -I thought you might want this back, Mr. Harvey, your gun.
• 46:18
  -Oh, no, wait a minute. Don't do anything stupid.
• 46:20
  -Oh, you don't have to worry.
• 46:22
  I found out that I'm a terrible shot.
• 46:25
  -But... Then Dan's alive?
• 46:28
  -See for yourself. -[ Door opens ]
• 46:32
  -Hello, Marty.
• 46:33
  -Dan! Thank heavens you're okay.
• 46:37
  Look, Dan, I didn't mean for anything serious to happen.
• 46:41
  -See the bandage, Marty? Just a flesh wound in my arm.
• 46:45
  -I'll be okay. -I'm glad to hear it, Danny.
• 46:47
  Honest, I am.
• 46:49
  -But I am learning to use my left arm, though.
• 46:51
  -Like this! -Wait a minute.
• 46:53
  [ Groans ] Oh, no. No, don't. Please.
• 46:55
  I didn't mean it. Don't -- Don't hit me again.
• 46:58
  -Relax, Marty. I've got better things to do.
• 47:04
  I've got a honeymoon to finish.
• 47:07
  Although, with any luck...
• 47:10
  ...it'll never end.
• 47:11
  ♪♪
• 47:17
  -Do you see?
• 47:19
  Even murder stories can have happy endings.
• 47:22
  Martin Harvey may have spoiled Susan and Dan's honeymoon,
• 47:27
  but that doesn't mean he managed to spoil their marriage.
• 47:31
  Now, if that's going to happen,
• 47:34
  Susan and Dan will take care of that all by themselves.
• 47:40
  I'll be back shortly.
• 47:42
  ♪♪
• 47:50
  ♪♪
• 47:58
  A purist might claim that the story you have just heard
• 48:02
  isn't a murder story, since no one was actually killed,
• 48:07
  the murders which took place
• 48:09
  were all in the imagination of Martin Harvey,
• 48:13
  who passed them on to the mind of Susan Carey.
• 48:16
  But it's a good demonstration of the point
• 48:18
  we've tried to make all along,
• 48:21
  that the most terrifying crimes can happen
• 48:25
  within the theater of the mind.
• 48:29
  Our cast included Betsy von Furstenberg,
• 48:32
  Michael Wager, Elspeth Eric, and Mason Adams.
• 48:37
  The entire production was under the direction of Himan Brown.
• 48:40
  This is E.G. Marshall inviting you to return
• 48:43
  to our "Mystery Theater"
• 48:45
  for another adventure in the macabre.
• 48:48
  Until next time. Pleasant dreams?
• 48:54
  [ Door creaking slowly ]
• 48:59
  [ Door closes ]
• 49:00
  ♪♪
• 49:10
  ♪♪
• 49:20
  ♪♪
• 49:28
  ♪♪
• 49:37
  -"If You Please..."
• 49:39
  "Himan Brown's Radio Mystery Theater" is produced
• 49:40
  and directed by Sarah Montague.
• 49:43
  Our executive producers are Melina Brown and Sarah Montague.
• 49:47
  CUNY TV's executive director is Chiqui Cartagena.
• 49:51
  The director of production is Susan Iger.
• 49:54
  The associate producer is Corinne Wallace,
• 49:56
  and our audio production intern is Sofia Cedeno.
• 49:59
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• 50:02
  introduction and credits.
• 50:04
  The program commentaries are by John Slavney.
• 50:07
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• 50:10
  includes senior audio engineer Richard Kim
• 50:13
  and broadcast audio engineers Jackie Mitchell and Kevin Wolfe.
• 50:18
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• 50:20
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• 50:24
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• 50:27
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• 50:30
  is Lisa Gosselin-Vincent.
• 50:32
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• 50:35
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• 50:38
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• 50:41
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• 50:43
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• 50:46
  of CUNY TV and Radio Drama Network.
• 50:50
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• 50:52
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• 50:54
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• 50:56
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• 50:59
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• 51:01
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• 51:04
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• 51:08
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• 51:10
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