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Suspense - "Murder Through the Looking Glass" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Mystery writer Jeffrey Bruno awakens on an evening train bound
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  Speaker 1: for Philadelphia with missing hours, an unfamiliar topcoat, and identification
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  Speaker 1: bearing another man's name. It is Suspense, Murder Through the
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  Speaker 1: Looking Glass, Episode 7, dated March 1st, 1949. Gregory Peck
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  Speaker 1: stars as Bruno, who must piece together what happened before
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  Speaker 1: the train reached Philadelphia, and learn why the name John
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  Speaker 1: Blake has drawn him into a murder investigation. The radio
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  Speaker 1: adaptation is by Ken Crossan, from a 1943 novel by
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  Speaker 1: Michael Venning, a pseudonym of Craig Rice, Anton M. Leder
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  Speaker 1: produced and directed. Ed Begley, William Johnstone, Sidney Miller, and
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  Speaker 1: Joe Kearns are heard in the supporting cast. Now, back
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  Speaker 3: Suspense.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight, Autolite brings you Gregory Peck in Michael Benning's Murder
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  Speaker 4: Through the Looking Glass, a suspense play produced and directed
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  Speaker 4: by Anton M.
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  Speaker 5: Leder.
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  Speaker 4: And now, Autolite presents Gregory Peck. in a tale well
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  Speaker 4: calculated to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 3: The sound was a dull, monotonous roar in my ears,
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  Speaker 3: and I listened, wondering if it were real or part
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  Speaker 3: of a dream. Suddenly, I was awake, and I knew
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  Speaker 3: that I was riding on a train. But where?
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  Speaker 6: Where?
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  Speaker 3: I didn't remember getting on a train. I opened my
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  Speaker 3: eyes and saw that I was in the lounge car.
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  Speaker 3: There was only darkness through the window. A man sat
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  Speaker 3: across from me reading. There was a bridge game down
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  Speaker 3: the aisle, a porter serving drinks. Everything nice and normal,
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  Speaker 3: except that I had no idea how I got on
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  Speaker 3: the train or why I was there. I tried to
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  Speaker 3: think of a reason for being there, but I couldn't.
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  Speaker 3: These spells of forgetfulness had been coming on more often lately.
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  Speaker 3: I leaned back and closed my eyes, listened to the
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  Speaker 3: rhythm of the train. A melody began to fit itself
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  Speaker 3: to the rhythm. I couldn't remember ever having heard such
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  Speaker 3: a song, but somehow I seemed to know the words.
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  Speaker 3: Down in the valley Valley so low Late in the
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  Speaker 3: evening Hear that train blow Hear that train blow I
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  Speaker 3: beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 7: Sir, but your singing is disturbing the other passengers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry. You understand, sir, it's the other passengers.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of liked your singing myself.
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  Speaker 6: Your singing didn't disturb me either, young man. In fact,
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  Speaker 6: it was a rather pretty melody.
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  Speaker 3: What was the name of it? Why, it's, uh... I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's silly, but I, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: can't even remember the tune now.
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  Speaker 6: That's the way it is with songs. I've had the
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  Speaker 6: same thing happen to me.
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  Speaker 3: So what, what train is this?
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  Speaker 6: Why, it's New York Express to Philadelphia. Ought to be
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  Speaker 6: there any minute, too. You must have been on some
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  Speaker 6: party if it lasted all day.
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  Speaker 3: What, what time is it? Seven o'clock.
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  Speaker 8: P.M., that is.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: It must have been pretty drunk out where you were.
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  Speaker 3: I think he said something else after that, but I
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  Speaker 3: wasn't listening then. I noticed that I was wearing a
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  Speaker 3: brown top coat. It wasn't mine. Maybe I'd accidentally exchanged
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  Speaker 3: coats with someone. If I couldn't remember it, it must
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  Speaker 3: have been that kind of a party. If so, I
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  Speaker 3: felt for my wallet. It was there. I opened it
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  Speaker 3: to see if I had any money left, and my
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  Speaker 3: eye was caught by the driver's license made out to...
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  Speaker 3: John Blake. In another pocket of the wallet, there were
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  Speaker 3: engraved cards reading John Blake Insurance. I wasn't John Blake.
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  Speaker 3: I was Jeffrey Bruno, a writer. I couldn't even drive
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  Speaker 3: a car. I didn't know anything about insurance. I'd never
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  Speaker 3: heard of a John Blake, but here was his identification
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  Speaker 3: in my wallet. What's the matter, young fellow?
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  Speaker 6: Are you ill?
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  Speaker 3: No. The man across from me said something, but I
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  Speaker 3: didn't hear what it was. I looked through the other pockets.
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  Speaker 3: There was a bank book showing that John Blake had
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  Speaker 3: a bank balance of $ 647. 55. My balance had never been
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  Speaker 3: higher than 15 bucks. There was a letter, a bill
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  Speaker 3: for shirts, addressed to John Blake at an address I
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  Speaker 3: never heard of before. There was a moment there, a
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  Speaker 3: few crazy seconds, when I wondered if I really was
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  Speaker 3: John Blake. No, I couldn't be. I knew I was
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Bruno, who lived at a two-room apartment in Greenwich
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  Speaker 3: Village and wrote mystery stories for a living. I knew
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  Speaker 3: who I was.
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  Speaker 8: Well, here we are. Or are you going on downtown? Well, I, uh.
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  Speaker 3: See, I could get a train back to New York here,
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  Speaker 3: couldn't I?
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  Speaker 6: Sure, right across on the other platform. That must have
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  Speaker 6: been some party.
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  Speaker 3: I had to get back to New York and straighten
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  Speaker 3: out this business about John Blake's coat and identification. He,
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  Speaker 3: whoever he was, might even be thinking I'd stolen them. Besides,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to find out where I'd been the night
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  Speaker 3: before and all day, and why I'd awakened on a
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  Speaker 3: train to Philadelphia. Then just as I got up from
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  Speaker 3: the seat, I glanced out of the window. The newsboy
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  Speaker 3: was holding up a newspaper. Across the top was the
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  Speaker 3: big headline.
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  Speaker 8: Kill her, Blake!
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  Speaker 3: Escape! Blake. And just below it, there was a picture of.
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  Speaker 1: me.
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  Speaker 3: Pulling down my hat and turning up my coat collar,
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  Speaker 3: I managed to get on a New York train without
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  Speaker 3: anyone recognizing me.
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  Speaker 7: Then.
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  Speaker 3: Fortunately, no one pays any attention to anyone else on
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  Speaker 3: New York subways. Two blocks from my apartment house, I
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  Speaker 3: stopped at the corner stand to buy a newspaper.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, there you are, Mr. Bruno. Haven't seen you around
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  Speaker 7: for a couple days.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been busy.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, you know, I.
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  Speaker 7: Saw your picture somewhere today. You got a story in
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  Speaker 7: one of the magazines, maybe?
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 6: Well, good.
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  Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 7: I'll remember where I saw your picture. I never forget a.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got to go now. You can tell me
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  Speaker 3: about it tomorrow. I had to get away before he remembered.
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  Speaker 3: I looked down and saw my picture on his papers.
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  Speaker 3: At home, there were a lot of letters in my box.
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  Speaker 3: Too many for just one delivery. When I got to
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  Speaker 3: the apartment, I looked at them. Two of the letters
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  Speaker 3: had been postmarked in New York three days before. It
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  Speaker 3: doesn't take three days for letters to be delivered locally.
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  Speaker 3: Where have I been for three days? Who's there?
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  Speaker 8: Rosalie.
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  Speaker 3: Rosalie, just a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Jeff.
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  Speaker 9: I thought I heard someone in here. A friend of
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  Speaker 9: yours stopped by, but you weren't home. He ran into
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  Speaker 9: me on the stairs and asked if I lived here
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  Speaker 9: and then wanted me to give you a message. Burnett
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  Speaker 9: was his name. Bill, I think he said.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad you're here, Rosalie. Stay and talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: We can have some coffee or a drink. When did
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  Speaker 3: you say Bill was here?
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  Speaker 9: Yesterday morning. He said something about having had a date
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  Speaker 9: with you the night before, but you never showed up.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday morning?
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: What's the matter, Jeff? Don't you feel well?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sure. I feel fine. Rosalie, tell me, do I
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  Speaker 3: ever do anything out of the ordinary? I mean, do I... Well,
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  Speaker 3: have I ever seemed strange? You mean, are you.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you've always seemed very sane to me, if that's
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  Speaker 9: what you mean. In spite of your vanishing acts.
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  Speaker 10: My.
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  Speaker 3: my what?
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  Speaker 9: The times you disappeared.
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  Speaker 8: You don't know?
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  Speaker 3: Let me finish it for you. You mean the days
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  Speaker 3: when I've awakened thinking it was Tuesday only to turn
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  Speaker 3: out to be Thursday. You mean I disappear for a
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  Speaker 3: couple of days, go somewhere else, become somebody else.
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  Speaker 9: I wouldn't have said anything, Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: But then why don't I remember? Oh, I've heard of
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  Speaker 3: people drawing blanks because they've had too much to drink.
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  Speaker 3: But now maybe it's something different.
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  Speaker 8: What is, Jeff?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've told her all about it. All I knew, anyway.
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  Speaker 3: At first she was frightened, but then I guess she
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  Speaker 3: felt sorry for me and she got over it. Before,
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  Speaker 3: Rosalie had always been just a beautiful, desirable girl. I'd
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  Speaker 3: had drinks with her a few times in her apartment
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  Speaker 3: and mine, but that was all. Oh, not that I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't wanted to take her out, but she was a
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  Speaker 3: model and I was sure that she led a glamorous
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  Speaker 3: life with rich men begging to take her out. But
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  Speaker 3: now she didn't look as glamorous as she looked understanding.
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  Speaker 3: I needed that. For I was beginning to believe that
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  Speaker 3: the explanation of John Blake wasn't as simple as I
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  Speaker 3: first thought.
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  Speaker 9: I'm glad I came in, Jeff. You need someone. And
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  Speaker 9: it doesn't matter whether you're John Blake or not.
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  Speaker 3: It matters to me. Look, I know I'm Jeffrey Bruno
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  Speaker 3: and not some guy named John Blake. I can remember
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  Speaker 3: my whole life living on the farm, going to school,
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  Speaker 3: working on a newspaper, coming to New York. I can
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  Speaker 3: remember every minute of it.
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  Speaker 8: Every minute?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no. No, not every minute.
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  Speaker 9: You know, Jeff, such things can happen. White-bearded old men
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  Speaker 9: with eyeglasses write books about such things. They've got a
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  Speaker 9: word for it. I can't pronounce it, but it means
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  Speaker 9: that you can be two people at one time and
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  Speaker 9: not know it. So maybe.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe I'm John Blake, too. I was way ahead
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  Speaker 3: of you in thinking that.
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  Speaker 9: And if you are, that's a sickness. And people can
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  Speaker 9: get over being sick. Maybe you'll remember all the things
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  Speaker 9: John Blake did.
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  Speaker 3: I already know one thing he did. He killed someone.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know who or how, but I... John Blake
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  Speaker 3: murdered someone.
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  Speaker 8: You brought a paper home.
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  Speaker 7: Why not see?
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  Speaker 9: Whatever happened, Jeff, we'll find a way to work it out.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Rosalie. Here it is. His name was Rufus Carrington.
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  Speaker 3: He was an old man and wealthy. I, John Blake...
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  Speaker 3: Worked part-time for his nephew, Roger Gunn. There's money missing
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  Speaker 3: from the firm, and it's believed Rufus Carrington may have
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  Speaker 3: found out about it. I see. Roger Gunn arrived to
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  Speaker 3: see his uncle this morning and was told by the
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  Speaker 3: butler that the old man was in the study with
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  Speaker 3: an unknown caller. Roger Gunn was talking to the butler
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  Speaker 3: when they heard the old man cry out. He ran
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  Speaker 3: to the study and found him dead. Your nephew saw me,
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  Speaker 3: the killer, escaping and recognized him. Well, if I were
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  Speaker 3: John Blake, my other self didn't do things in a
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  Speaker 3: small way. Oh, don't, Jeff. I never wanted the things
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  Speaker 3: John Blake must have wanted. I never wanted riches. Never
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  Speaker 3: thought of going into a business like insurance. I just
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  Speaker 3: can't understand this thing.
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  Speaker 8: They'll understand, Jeff.
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  Speaker 9: They have people who understand things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Rosalie, whatever happens, will you promise me that if you
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  Speaker 3: don't like Jeffrey Bruno, you'll like John Blake? But like
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  Speaker 3: one of us. It doesn't matter which one it is.
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  Speaker 7: I like you.
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  Speaker 9: Whichever one of them you are.
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  Speaker 3: You see, Rosalie, I... I'm innocent, even if John Blake isn't.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't murdered anyone. It was another part of me.
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  Speaker 3: But if I try to run away, they'll find me.
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  Speaker 3: They'll hurt me for what John Blake did. Where can
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  Speaker 3: I go? What can I do?
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  Speaker 9: You can go to the police and tell them the
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  Speaker 9: whole truth. Because, you see, they can't do anything to you.
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  Speaker 9: You're not responsible for what you did as John Blake.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe you're right. No point in running. Look, I
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  Speaker 3: know I have no right to ask it, but would
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  Speaker 3: you go with me, Rosalie?
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  Speaker 8: Of course I will, Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: It's like being haunted, knowing that somewhere inside of me
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  Speaker 3: there's another man, never knowing when I'll be him. Say, say,
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  Speaker 3: what if, what if I turn into John Blake before
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  Speaker 3: we even get to the police? What?
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  Speaker 3: Rosalie was right, I... Thought about it as we walked
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  Speaker 3: down the stairs. They'd know what to do with a
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  Speaker 3: case like mine. They'd know that Jeffrey Bruno wasn't responsible
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  Speaker 3: for what John Blake did. Of course, they'd lock me
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  Speaker 3: up for my own good and... and... and they'd leave
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  Speaker 3: me in there.
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  Speaker 9: What's the matter, Jeff?
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  Speaker 3: Wait, wait, Rosalie. You're right, I mustn't run away, but... first,
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  Speaker 3: I've got to find out about the other me, about
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  Speaker 3: John Blake. All I know is that he murdered someone.
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  Speaker 3: I have to know other things about him, what he
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  Speaker 3: was really like.
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  Speaker 9: I understand, Jeff, but you mustn't do anything foolish.
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  Speaker 3: I have to know about my other life, what books
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I read, what kind of girls I liked. You can
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  Speaker 3: see that's important, can't you?
• 15:25
  Speaker 10: Of course.
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  Speaker 9: Jeff, I just thought of something. I know a man,
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  Speaker 9: a psychiatrist. Maybe if I called him, you could see
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  Speaker 9: him tonight.
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  Speaker 7: He'd understand.
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  Speaker 9: Maybe he could tell you what to do.
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: Will you talk to him?
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  Speaker 3: I'll do anything. It'll help me to understand what I
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: was like when I was John Blake and why I
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: was like that.
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  Speaker 9: I'll go in the drugstore here and call him. I'm
• 15:43
  Speaker 9: sure he'll see you and we'll do whatever he says.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Bruno, you say there have been many times when you
• 15:56
  Speaker 10: haven't remembered what happened for days.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, not many. A few times. It only happened after
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  Speaker 3: I'd been drinking and I I thought that's all it
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  Speaker 3: was until this. I see.
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  Speaker 7: It's a very interesting case.
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  Speaker 3: What is it, Doctor? I've done some reading on psychiatry,
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  Speaker 3: and it sounds... Is it split personality? Schizophrenia?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, very possible.
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  Speaker 10: For instance, subconsciously, you might have had a desire for
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  Speaker 10: things which, consciously, you'd convinced yourself were bad. That desire
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  Speaker 10: became so great that you created John Blake. so you
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: could satisfy it without compromising Jeffrey Bruno.
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  Speaker 3: But wouldn't I be partly aware of wanting those things?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it possible that I'm not John Blake, that all
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  Speaker 3: of this is something else?
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  Speaker 7: I'll let you answer that yourself, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Bruno. How can I? If I could answer it, I
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: wouldn't be here.
• 16:43
  Speaker 10: Mr. Bruno, do you honestly believe that there is a
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  Speaker 10: real person named John Blake, a person who looks exactly
• 16:48
  Speaker 10: like you, a person whose coat and identification came accidentally
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  Speaker 10: into your possession?
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  Speaker 3: No, I guess I don't, but But there must be
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: another explanation.
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  Speaker 10: The alternative would be to believe that someone is framing you.
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  Speaker 10: Do you believe that someone drugged you several times or
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  Speaker 10: there'd be days you couldn't account for? That someone forged
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: the papers of John Blake and planted them on you?
• 17:11
  Speaker 10: Can you believe that someone planned to commit this murder
• 17:13
  Speaker 10: months ago, rented an apartment in the name of John Blake,
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: filled it with clothing in your size, put your photograph
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: in the apartment? According to the newspaper story, the nephew
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: of the murder victim was the only man to identify
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: your picture. Therefore, he would have to have been the
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: one to frame you. Well, this would imply that this
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: Roger Gunn.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: Knew you and you knew him.
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: Do you?
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: No, I don't remember.
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: Then can you believe that he was able to drug
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: you to know your clothes size to get a photograph
• 17:41
  Speaker 10: of you?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I guess not.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Besides, if he framed you, that implies he is the murderer.
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: But that can't be, because according to the butler, the
• 17:47
  Speaker 10: nephew was with him at the time the murder took place.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: You see, Mr. Bruno?
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: I see. What can I do, Doctor?
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: Well, if this were not a murder case, the answer
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: would be a simple one. I'd undertake to treat you,
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: but as it is, I'm afraid I must suggest that
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: you go to the police.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I suppose you're right.
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you, young man,
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: if you'd only come to me sooner.
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: Jeff, can you help him, Doctor?
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: Under the circumstances, it's too late for me to do
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: anything directly. I've advised Mr. Bruno to go to the police.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Come on, Jeff.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I'll go with you. All right. Oh, thank you, Doctor. Oh,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: not at all.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: Sorry, I can't do more. Good night.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Jeff, but they'll have to believe you. They
• 18:35
  Speaker 9: can't make you suffer for what John Blake did. And then,
• 18:40
  Speaker 9: when you're well.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: When I'm well, what?
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: We'll see.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: Rosalie, there's one more thing I want to do before
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I go to the police. I want to see the
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: apartment where I lived when I was John Blake. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: still don't know what I was like when I was
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: being here. Maybe if I can only see how I lived,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: it'll give me a clue.
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: There it is, Jeff.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Right across the street. The lobby looks empty. Now, let's see.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: The address on the letter is apartment 203.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: Wasn't there anything in the letter?
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: It was a bill. It seems that I'm not only
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: an embezzler and a murderer... I didn't even pay John
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Blake's bills.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Please, Jeff, don't joke about it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: All right, Rosalie, no joking. I don't think it's very
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: funny either. Now, if I were John Blake, I ought
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: to have a key to my own apartment. Ah, this
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: must be it. I don't remember ever seeing it before,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: but the number 203 is stamped on it. Well, Rosalie.
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: I'll stay here and warn you if the police come.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: Good luck, Jeff.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: The lobby was empty. I got on the self-service elevator
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: and I rode up to the second floor. It, too,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: was deserted and I walked to the door of John...
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: of my apartment. I hesitated, wondering if maybe there were
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: a policeman inside. Well, I... I had to take the chance.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: A key worked and I stepped inside. The place seemed empty.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I turned on the light. It was a small apartment, inexpensive,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: perfectly correct, and dull. There were hunting prints on the wall.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: There were two suits in the wardrobe. My size all right,
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: even though I couldn't remember buying them. There were even
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: monogrammed handkerchiefs. It was unreal. Yet I had to believe
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: all these things belonged to me, that there had been
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: times when I liked wearing them. My head was spinning
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: by now, and I leaned up against the wall. I
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: don't know how long I stood there, unaware of anything
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: except the pain inside. Gradually, I was aware that somebody
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: was knocking on a door, but it was several seconds
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: before I located it. It was at my door. The police? Oh, no,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Rosalie said she'd warned me. It was the police. I
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: wasn't ready to give myself up yet. I ran to
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the window. There was a fire escape outside.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Open up or we'll break it down.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I raised the window and looked out. I couldn't see anyone.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Okay, boys, let's go in.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I could take a chance if there wasn't a cop
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: at the bottom of the fire escape. I climbed out
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and closed the window. As I started to break in,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: I ran down the fire escape. I jumped to the
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: ground and looked around the corner. There was one man
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: sitting in the police car. I turned and ran the
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: other way. I must have run... two blocks before I
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: heard footsteps behind me. I turned and it was Rosalie.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: You said you'd warned me. What happened?
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: But I did, Jeff.
• 21:49
  Speaker 9: I rang the buzzer twice while they were getting out
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: of the car. When I saw you getting away, I
• 21:53
  Speaker 9: thought you'd heard. You must have heard it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: You rang twice? The bell must be out of order,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: just like John Blake. Or I didn't hear it. I
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: almost didn't hear them knocking. I'm sorry, Rosalie. I just...
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: It doesn't matter, Jeff. I.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: I was so frightened.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, you mustn't be. I promise I won't do anything
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: to involve you or hurt you.
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: Oh, I wasn't thinking of myself. You can't go on
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: like this, Jeff. You've got to go in. Give yourself
• 22:17
  Speaker 9: a chance to get well.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: You know, upstairs there for a minute, I thought of
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: running away, of going to some little town and changing
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: my name. But that's no good either. That wouldn't get
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: rid of John Blake.
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: Then?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: I've got an idea. Just one more try. Another hour
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: won't make any difference to the police. All right, Jeff.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Where are we going? Not we, Rosalie. I'm not going
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: to involve you in this anymore. I was John Blake.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: I did the things John Blake did, and I have
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: to see it through to the finish.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: At least tell me where you're going.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: It'll be better if you don't know.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Oh, please, Jeff.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: No, this is the way it has to be. Then
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: if it turns out worse than we think, you can
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: just remember that for a few hours you were friendly
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: to someone who needed it. If I come through this,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: if I get well, then.
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: Yes, Jeff?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Well, as you said, Rosalie, We'll see. I put her
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: in a cab and gave the driver the address in
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: the village. Then I went to the place where I
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: was afraid to go. Yet it was the one place
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I had to go.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Well, don't... Aren't you Mr. Carrington's butler? Yes, sir.
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: Clark is the name, sir. I've been.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I was in Mr. Carrington's service for 40 years. But
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: why do you ask?
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Well, don't you recognize me? I.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: I don't believe so, sir. Of course, there were so
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: many of you here today from the newspapers.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: But I was here even earlier. I... I'm John Blake. Oh.
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: Then you're the gentleman who murdered Mr. Carrington. According to
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: the newspapers.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Why do you say according to the newspapers?
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: I don't believe you killed Mr. Carrington, sir.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: You don't? Why not?
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: Why, he didn't even know you, sir.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe he only got acquainted with me this morning
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: when I came to kill him.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: If he had made an appointment with you, sir, I
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: would have known.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: But didn't you let me in to see him? Oh, no, sir.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: He answered the door himself when his visitor arrived.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: I see. I see. Is Mr. Carrington's nephew here? Mr.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Gunn?
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: But he left word not to be disturbed.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: He did, did he? Clark, did Mr. Carrington have a gun?
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Would you trust me with it if it might help
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: catch the murderer? I guarantee it'll catch him.
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: Won't you step in?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: I was very fond of Mr.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Carrington, sir.
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: He kept the gun here in the hall near the door.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Uh-oh.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: Here it is, sir.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: I'm an old man myself, and perhaps I'm foolish to even.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Don't you worry. Just take me to see Mr.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Gunn.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, but I can't do that, sir.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Clark!
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: Oh, pardon me, sir. Yes, Mr.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Gunn?
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Who are you talking to, Clark?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Is that the attorney?
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: No, sir. It's a young.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute. I know that voice. I'm sorry, Clark.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Who the devil.
• 25:22
  Speaker 7: You?
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Yes, me, Mr. Gunn. Or should I say Dr. Gunn? Clark,
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: leave the room.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Well, this is all a terrible mistake.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: You bet it is. And I want to hear why
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: the nephew of the man I'm supposed to have murdered
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: is also the psychiatrist who convinced me I was crazy
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: and ought to surrender to the police. Don't move.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: Don't point that gun at me, please.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: I'm expecting a phone call from the attorney about the will.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: And then I'm sure we can straighten this thing out.
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: I'll give you money.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: We'll straighten it out now without money. You killed your uncle,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: didn't you? No.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: I was with Clark. He can tell you.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Don't answer that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: Clark will answer it, then, on the extension. And he
• 26:03
  Speaker 7: knows I'm here.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: And let Clark answer it. But I'm going to get
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the truth out of you before you have a chance
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: to talk to anyone. I.
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: I meant you no harm.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Not much. You just wanted me to take your seat
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: in the electric chair. You told me the whole thing
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: when you were posing as the psychiatrist, didn't you? You
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: told me the truth, making me think it couldn't have
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: been like that. The only thing you didn't tell me
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: was about the person who killed your uncle and helped
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: frame me.
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: I beg your pardon, sir, but it's an urgent call.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Don't move, Gun. If it's so urgent, I'll take it
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: for you. Yes?
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: Roger, I'm calling you from our usual place. He hasn't
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: gone to the police yet.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Roger, are you there? I, uh, yes. I can't talk now.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: The attorney's here. Wait, Roger.
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: I think he's on his way over there. Be careful.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: You don't sound right. Are you getting frightened again? After
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: all we've done so far, you've got to keep your
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: nerve up. I'm coming over, Roger.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 26:59
  Speaker 11: I'll be there in five minutes. Stall him when he arrives. Goodbye, Roger.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Rosalie. Clark.
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: Yes, sir?
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: You were right before. Mr. Carrington opened the door this
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: morning for a beautiful young lady after a date had
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: been made by Mr. Roger Gunn here.
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: I told him she was blackmailing me and I wanted
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: him to see her because he'd had experience handling that
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: sort of thing.
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: But I swear Rosalie didn't tell me she was.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Going to kill... Never mind. Clark, call the police. Tell
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: them by the time they arrive, the murderer of Mr.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Carrington will be here waiting for them. Thank you, Gregory Peck,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: for a great suspense show. Say, Greg, while out driving
• 27:59
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• 28:01
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• 28:05
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• 28:12
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• 28:21
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• 28:22
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• 29:05
  Speaker 7: And now here again is Mr.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Gregory Peck.
• 29:07
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• 29:09
  Speaker 3: suspense play. It's one of the programs that every actor
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: in Hollywood most enjoys to appear on and to listen to.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: For instance, I wouldn't miss next week's show when Pat
• 29:18
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• 29:23
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• 29:27
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