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The Whistler - "Death Has a Thirst" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Donna Jackson takes her husband Victor aboard Harvey Davis's yacht,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: hoping distance from home may break the hold of alcoholism
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: and suspicion. Instead, a sea voyage leaves three people isolated
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: on a remote island, with supplies running low and fresh
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: water uncertain. From CBS on August 22, 1942, this is
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: episode 15 of The Whistler, Death Has a Thirst, written
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  Speaker 1: and directed by J. Donald Wilson, with music by Wilbur Hatch.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. Have you heard the weird tales of
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: The Whistler?
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: I'm the whistler.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: Here's the sanitarium, Harvey.
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: Is he still unconscious?
• 1:15
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:16
  Speaker 6: Here comes the attendant.
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  Speaker 2: We're all ready for him, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Jackson.
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: Take your seat, Harold. Oh, had to tie him, eh? Yes,
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: I had to give him a good one on the chin.
• 1:25
  Speaker 6: You'll have to watch him. He may try to get
• 1:27
  Speaker 6: away when he comes to.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: Don't worry, we've got a lot of tough cases here.
• 1:30
  Speaker 6: Don't let him know who brought him here.
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  Speaker 2: And don't let him know I had anything to do
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  Speaker 2: with it. Leave everything to us. It's a two-hour drive
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: back to the city, Donna.
• 1:37
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 1:38
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll phone you tomorrow.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: Good. If anything happens, we'll call you.
• 1:41
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 1:42
  Speaker 8: Good night.
• 1:49
  Speaker 9: Saturday night, and again, CBS presents The Whistler. I, The Whistler,
• 2:00
  Speaker 9: know many things, for I walk by night.
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  Speaker 10: I know many strange tales. I know many secrets hidden
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  Speaker 10: in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
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  Speaker 10: into the shadows. And so I tell you tonight the
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  Speaker 10: mysterious tale of Death Has a Thirst. The long black
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  Speaker 10: car with the handsome man at the wheel and the
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  Speaker 10: woman beside him returns to the highway and speeds on
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  Speaker 10: through the night. The man and woman sit staring ahead,
• 2:32
  Speaker 10: lost in thought. The man is Harvey Davis.
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  Speaker 7: The woman, Mrs.
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  Speaker 10: Victor Jackson, wife of the unconscious man recently deposited at
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  Speaker 10: the sanitarium.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry I dragged you into this, Harvey.
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  Speaker 6: But I had to have some help and I knew
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  Speaker 6: I could depend on you.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right, Donna. I only hope it'll do some good.
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  Speaker 2: Victor never drank a drop while we were in school.
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  Speaker 8: He didn't drink when we were first married. But after
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  Speaker 8: his father died and Victor took over the business, he started.
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  Speaker 2: It's a huge concern, and I guess he just couldn't
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: take it. He's always had an inferiority complex.
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  Speaker 8: But the thing that hurts me most is that the
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  Speaker 8: drinking has completely changed him. Why, he's suspicious of every
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  Speaker 8: move I make.
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  Speaker 6: He accuses me of the most disgraceful things.
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  Speaker 8: He accuses me of lying to him about everything and
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  Speaker 8: of being in love with.
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  Speaker 6: With other men.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Countless things.
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  Speaker 2: Other men? What men?
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  Speaker 6: Any men I speak to. Even you, Harvey.
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  Speaker 11: Me?
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  Speaker 2: Well, after all, if he's going to be suspicious of
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  Speaker 2: any man, it would logically be me.
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  Speaker 6: Why?
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  Speaker 2: You've brought most of your troubles to me. He knows that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm as good a victim as any. He knows I'm
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  Speaker 2: terribly fond of you.
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  Speaker 6: Are you, Harvey?
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  Speaker 2: From the first day I met you, I said, here's
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  Speaker 2: a woman. A strong woman. Maybe she'll develop some backbone
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  Speaker 2: in my willy-nilly friend, Victor.
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  Speaker 6: That's very nicely put, Harvey.
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  Speaker 2: Let's hope the sanitarium does him some good.
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  Speaker 6: If it doesn't, I don't know what I'll do.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, Donna. Just remember, I'll do anything for you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Harvey.
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  Speaker 10: About Midnight The black sedan arrives at the Jackson mansion.
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  Speaker 10: The butler greets Harvey and Donna at the door.
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  Speaker 7: Evening, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Jackson.
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  Speaker 6: Evening, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Evening.
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Saunders is in the library, ma'am. He's waiting for you.
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  Speaker 11: Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Saunders at this hour? What on earth does he want?
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  Speaker 2: You'd better see him, Donna. Maybe he knows.
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  Speaker 6: How could he? Come with me, Harvey.
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good evening, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Saunders.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, Donna. Good evening.
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  Speaker 2: Evening, Harvey. Hello, Doctor.
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  Speaker 6: This is quite a surprise.
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  Speaker 3: I can imagine. I, um.
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  Speaker 6: Harvey and I, we've just been for a little drive.
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  Speaker 6: I felt I needed some air.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so?
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  Speaker 6: Did you come to see Victor?
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  Speaker 3: Victor isn't here.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 3: But I know where he is.
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  Speaker 6: You do?
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: He's in a cheap dive of a rooming house downtown.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: But that's impossible.
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  Speaker 3: That's where he always goes.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you're wrong this time, Doctor. I took him by
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  Speaker 6: force to a sanitarium tonight. Harvey, help me. Maybe they
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  Speaker 6: can do something for him.
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  Speaker 3: You told the sanitarium that I was his physician, didn't you?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they called me an hour ago. He's escaped. What?
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  Speaker 3: They said he came to and broke away from them.
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  Speaker 3: I know where he usually goes, and I can find him.
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  Speaker 3: If you want me to find him.
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  Speaker 6: What are you inferring, Doctor?
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  Speaker 3: Donna, I know what you've been through with Victor. I
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  Speaker 3: know what a trial it's been... I've tried and you've tried.
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  Speaker 3: We've all tried everything we could do to make him stop.
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  Speaker 3: Not many women would have put up with what you have.
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  Speaker 3: We've dragged him through before. We probably can do it again.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought, well, maybe you'd had enough.
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  Speaker 6: You do know where he is?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm pretty sure I know.
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  Speaker 6: Well, then find him. I'm determined to cure him if
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  Speaker 6: I have to take him to a desert island.
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  Speaker 2: That's an idea. A long ocean trip might be the answer.
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  Speaker 3: After hog time.
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  Speaker 6: I could do that, too.
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  Speaker 7: Very well.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have a talk with him. I'll phone you in
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  Speaker 3: the morning. Good night.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Harvey.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: You've done your best, Donna.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but I feel so hopeless. I don't know what
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  Speaker 6: to do.
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  Speaker 2: Try the desert island.
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  Speaker 6: Why not? Harvey, it might work, mind it. You can help.
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  Speaker 6: Your yacht.
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Saunders may be right. Oh, at least it's worth a try.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder.
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  Speaker 6: Please, Harvey, it may be the answer.
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  Speaker 2: I can't get away just now, but if you're determined,
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  Speaker 2: you're welcome to the aunt.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, please, I'd feel better if you came along.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Donna. I'll go. I'll arrange it. But he
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  Speaker 2: won't want to come.
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  Speaker 6: We'll take him aboard by force.
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  Speaker 2: Shanghai?
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  Speaker 5: Well, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Just let me know when you find him, and I'll
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: arrange everything. All right.
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  Speaker 6: He sure was plastered. Well, I'll leave you alone.
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  Speaker 2: With him, Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks. That hypo will bring him out of this. Victor. Victor.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on here? Who are you? Get away.
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  Speaker 3: Quiet, quiet. Take it easy, Victor.
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  Speaker 11: Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you?
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  Speaker 3: Doc Saunders.
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  Speaker 2: Doc?
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  Speaker 3: What do you want? I want to talk to you, Victor.
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  Speaker 3: It's very important.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Victor, snap out of it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what's the idea?
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  Speaker 3: What'd you slap me for? To wake you up, I've
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: got to talk to you. Oh, hello, Doc. What are
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  Speaker 3: you after? Is your head clear? I guess so. Then
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  Speaker 3: listen to me. You know where you are? Yeah, yeah,
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: my old heart. You know how you got here? No.
• 8:07
  Speaker 3: Let me see. No, I can't seem to remember. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you where you're going. if you don't pull
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  Speaker 3: yourself together.
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 3: To the insane asylum. Did you say asylum? I did.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't told you this, but your great-grandfather died insane.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 3: And that was your father's greatest fear, that he would
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  Speaker 3: be a victim. And there's nothing that hastens final mental
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  Speaker 3: breakdown more than alcohol. Insanity?
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  Speaker 2: Are you just telling me that?
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  Speaker 3: No, I can prove it.
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  Speaker 2: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Do you want that to happen to you? Well, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but I.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just can't seem to quit.
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  Speaker 3: You're going away, Vic.
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  Speaker 5: Away?
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  Speaker 7: Where?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sending you on a long voyage with no liquor. Oh, no. No,
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  Speaker 3: you're not.
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  Speaker 2: No, now, I'll get hold of myself.
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  Speaker 3: You said that before.
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  Speaker 2: I can take it or leave it alone if I
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  Speaker 2: want to.
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  Speaker 3: But you haven't so far. You've gone from bad to worse.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're going where you can't get it.
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  Speaker 7: But, Doc, I can't. I'd die.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't stand it.
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  Speaker 3: You'll stand it and like it. If I have to
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  Speaker 3: kill you. No.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 11: No, I won't be pushed around by anyone. I know
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  Speaker 11: who's back of this, don't I? She wants to get
• 9:17
  Speaker 11: rid of me.
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: Asylum, yeah. Yeah, that'd suit her fine.
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  Speaker 7: She'd like that. So she can cavort around with Harvey
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  Speaker 7: and all the others.
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  Speaker 3: Shut up, Vic.
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  Speaker 7: You're all planning to get rid of me. You don't
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  Speaker 7: like me.
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  Speaker 3: You're taking a trip.
• 9:27
  Speaker 7: Get rid of me and you all share in the estate. Well,
• 9:29
  Speaker 7: you'll see how much good it'll do.
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  Speaker 3: But you are taking a trip, Victor.
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  Speaker 10: And now, here you are, Victor, several hundred miles at sea.
• 9:50
  Speaker 10: And worried, too, aren't you, Victor? That talk about insanity
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  Speaker 10: really upsets you. You believe it, too, don't you?
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: What's this? Where am I? Donna.
• 10:07
  Speaker 6: Do you feel better?
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: What is it? It's moving. I feel dizzy.
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: I don't think you're dizzy. We're on a boat, darling.
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: What boat?
• 10:17
  Speaker 6: We're on a boat in the middle of the ocean.
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: A boat? Yes.
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: Doc Saunders.
• 10:22
  Speaker 7: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 5: A voyage.
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  Speaker 2: It's his idea.
• 10:24
  Speaker 8: Oh, now, Victor.
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  Speaker 6: Everything's going to be all right.
• 10:26
  Speaker 11: I know what you're planning to do. You're planning to
• 10:28
  Speaker 11: kill me. You want to get rid of me. Want
• 10:30
  Speaker 11: me to die.
• 10:31
  Speaker 6: You won't die.
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  Speaker 7: Whose boat is this?
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  Speaker 6: Harvey's yacht.
• 10:34
  Speaker 5: Harvey.
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  Speaker 7: Now I know it's a plot. Now I know what
• 10:37
  Speaker 7: it's all about. You and Harvey.
• 10:40
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: Don't be ridiculous, Victor. Harvey consented to let me have
• 10:43
  Speaker 6: the yacht.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Is he on board?
• 10:45
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 10:47
  Speaker 7: You and Harvey and me are prisoners. What a perfect setup.
• 10:50
  Speaker 6: You don't mean that, Victor.
• 10:51
  Speaker 7: I've been suspicious of you two all along. Who else
• 10:54
  Speaker 7: is on board?
• 10:55
  Speaker 6: Nobody but the captain and the crew of four. And
• 10:58
  Speaker 6: Harvey and the doctor.
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: Where are you taking me?
• 11:00
  Speaker 6: We're just cruising.
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: Just cruising?
• 11:03
  Speaker 7: Will you find the right spot?
• 11:04
  Speaker 6: Right spot for what?
• 11:05
  Speaker 7: To dump me overboard. No one will ever know, will they?
• 11:08
  Speaker 7: And you'll say I jumped over.
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: I was washed over the side.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Victor, what has happened to you? You're like a
• 11:16
  Speaker 6: stranger to me. I just don't know you. It doesn't
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: seem possible that you're the man I married. My darling,
• 11:23
  Speaker 6: what's happened to you?
• 11:25
  Speaker 7: Don't you know?
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: If I only did.
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: I'm crazy. Insane.
• 11:30
  Speaker 7: Surely you knew that.
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  Speaker 11: My great-grandfather was insane, and my grandfather, and undoubtedly my father,
• 11:35
  Speaker 11: so why not me?
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  Speaker 6: You're talking nonsense.
• 11:37
  Speaker 2: No.
• 11:38
  Speaker 7: Hasn't Doc Saunders told you what he knows? I know.
• 11:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, come now.
• 11:41
  Speaker 7: You three are closer than that.
• 11:42
  Speaker 6: Stop talking such nonsense. I won't listen.
• 11:45
  Speaker 7: I'm getting out of this cabin. I can't stand to
• 11:47
  Speaker 7: be cooped up like this.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: Please stay here for a while, Victor.
• 11:49
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 11:49
  Speaker 5: Please.
• 11:50
  Speaker 6: Here, I brought you some milk. Please drink it.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: Milk?
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  Speaker 7: Ah, got a funny color to it. And it smells strange.
• 12:01
  Speaker 7: What's in it, arsenic?
• 12:02
  Speaker 6: It's just plain milk, Victor. Now drink it.
• 12:06
  Speaker 7: Do you like milk, Donna?
• 12:07
  Speaker 6: Yes, I love milk.
• 12:09
  Speaker 7: Then drink it yourself.
• 12:10
  Speaker 2: Victor!
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, all over my dress.
• 12:12
  Speaker 7: You're trying to poison me, that's it. Now get out
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  Speaker 7: of here.
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: Get out.
• 12:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, Victor, please, darling.
• 12:17
  Speaker 8: Get out!
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Victor!
• 12:28
  Speaker 7: Oh, what do you want, Doc?
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: How do you feel, Victor?
• 12:32
  Speaker 7: They're trying to kill me. They plan to kill me.
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 12:35
  Speaker 7: Donna and Harvey. She just brought me some milk and
• 12:38
  Speaker 7: it had poison in it. I could tell by the color.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: I think you're imagining things, Victor.
• 12:42
  Speaker 11: No, no, I'm not.
• 12:44
  Speaker 7: They want me out of the way. I can tell.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: What made you think the milk was poison? It was
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: a purplish color.
• 12:50
  Speaker 7: Here, here's the glass. Smell it. Hmm, maybe I'm not
• 12:56
  Speaker 7: so crazy after all.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: I didn't say you were crazy. I only want you
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: to stop drinking. Drink may bring it on. Doc, where
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: would they get poison? Oh, come now, forget it.
• 13:08
  Speaker 7: Do you know where they get poison, Doc?
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: I'll see you later, Victor.
• 13:14
  Speaker 7: Maybe.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 13:24
  Speaker 6: Did you send for me, Doctor?
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: Yes. Did you take some milk to Victor?
• 13:29
  Speaker 6: Yes, I did.
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: What did you put in it?
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: Why should I put anything in it?
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Victor thinks you did.
• 13:34
  Speaker 6: You should know me better than that, Doctor.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: You did put something in it?
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I did. Some of that red liquid to
• 13:41
  Speaker 6: make him quiet.
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, of course. That's what it was.
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: He threw it all over me.
• 13:49
  Speaker 10: Oh, I.
• 13:50
  Speaker 8: I'm thoroughly disgusted, Doctor. I... I can't go on with
• 13:53
  Speaker 8: him this way. He isn't drinking, but there's something wrong.
• 13:57
  Speaker 8: I decided to give it up as a bad job.
• 14:00
  Speaker 6: I'm going to get a divorce.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: Divorce? I'm afraid it's too late for that, Donna.
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: Too late? Why, what do you mean?
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: Well, there's something I haven't told you. I've been hoping
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: it wouldn't be necessary. But after today, I've given.
• 14:16
  Speaker 7: Up all hope.
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: Why can't I get a divorce?
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: You can't get a divorce from an insane person.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: Insane? Good heavens.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: It's been a secret in Victor's family for several generations.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: Not even Victor knew it. It touched his father ever
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: so lightly, but Victor has all the symptoms. And the
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: liquor has hastened the crack-up. I couldn't be certain as
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: long as he was drinking. But today, I realized the truth.
• 14:42
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm bewildered. I've never been so shocked in my life.
• 14:49
  Speaker 6: I wish you hadn't told me.
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Donna. I wanted you to be on your guard.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: He has some strange hallucination about you and Harvey. He
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: thinks you're planning to do away with him.
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: Do away with him? Oh, but that's ridiculous. I've never
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: had such a thought.
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: Never.
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, but now I am frightened. Doctor, what about Alice?
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Your daughter's only eight years old. no symptoms and it
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: may miss her entirely.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: But think what this will mean if this gets out
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: about Victor. It may ruin her whole life.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I understand that.
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: That must never happen. It must remain a secret.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: That'll be difficult.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: It's going to be hard to handle when that craving returns.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: Yes, it will. I'll think of something. I'll find a way.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: Doctor, come quickly.
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: It's Harvey Davis.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: What's wrong, Captain?
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: Caught him in his bunk with a cord around his neck.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Good heavens. Quiet, Donna. Come along.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: Is he dead?
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: No, he's breathing. Found him just in time. He'll be
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: all right in a few minutes.
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: Thank heaven.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Harvey, Harvey.
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: Harvey.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Donna, what's wrong?
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: What's happened?
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: Nothing much, Harvey. Just a little accident. You'll be all right.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, my throat.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: What's going on? You don't remember? No, I was just
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: taking a little nap. My feet were so high I'd
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: been choked. Better tell him, Donna. Come along, Captain. Any
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: liquor aboard, Captain?
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, Doctor. Several bottles in the locker in my cabin.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Let's have a look.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: I keep it locked because, uh... Hey, it's been jimmied. Well,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: what do you know? It's all gone.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I expected that.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I'll skin those men alive.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Don't blame the men, Captain.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: What do you mean? What the devil is that? We've
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: hit something. Come on.
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: Captain.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: What is it, man?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with you?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: The boilers blew up. We must have hit a reef.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: All three of the men of the crew were down there.
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: We've got to abandon.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I'm hurt bad, Captain.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: He's dead.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: See to the light boat. Round up the others.
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: I'll go below.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: Yes, Captain.
• 17:08
  Speaker 11: Murphy!
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Jones!
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Murphy!
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Are you there? Good Lord, what a mess. I can't imagine....
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: Two days pass.
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: The sun beats down relentlessly on the five survivors in
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: the open boat. The doctor watches anxiously over the still
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: unconscious captain. Donna and Harvey keep a constant eye on Victor,
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: who sits alone in the end of the boat, staring
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: at the horizon.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: How's the captain, doctor?
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Still holding his own. Must have had a bad fall
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: down that companionway.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I don't think he fell.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Good thing you went down after him.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: We're running low on water. I hope we sight some
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: land today. How much water have you left in your canteen, Donna?
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: A couple.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, look over there. What's that?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Why, it's a ship. No, it's land. An island. Grab
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: an oar, Victor. Come on, Doc. Well, I've looked all around.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: This place is as barren of food and water as
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: the Sahara Desert. I'm afraid if we do locate any water,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: it won't be fit to drink. There must be water.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: What do you care about water? You've got a canteen
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: full of whiskey. How much water is left?
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I have some and Dr. Saunders has some.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: So I'd better get busy. Although my experiences on these
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: islands haven't been so good.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: Here's a chance to put your chemistry to use, Harvey.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: You know the test for lead and zinc?
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I'll give you two vials, some sodium sulfide tablets and
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: some potassium chromate. You know the test. One tablet of
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: each and ten cc's of water. A dark precipitate means poison.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know. Thanks, Doc. Well, I'll start off and
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: keep a direct line to the other side. Wherever that is.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, Harvey.
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: I think I'll go with you.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, why?
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Oh, maybe I can help.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I'd go with you, Harvey, but I'd better keep my
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: eye on the captain. He's the only one who knows
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: where we are. I've got to pull him through.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: That's all right, Doc. I don't need any help.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: I think I'll go anyway.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: If you insist, come on.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Harvey, wait.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I'm going, too.
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: Why?
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Because I want to.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: We don't need you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: But I'm coming, just the same. Please, Harvey, I'd like
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: to come.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: It's certainly hot.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: How do you feel, Donna?
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: All right. How far have we come?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, ten miles, I should say. was a pretty big
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: island at that, and nothing but desert.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: Are you sure those last two water holes were poisoned?
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Certainly. Look good to me.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: I'm getting mighty thirsty.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Better quit drinking that whiskey. It'll only make you thirstier.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Harvey, can I have a little water?
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Donna, but you'll have to suffer it as
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: long as you can.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Please wait.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Do you suppose we'll ever get out of here?
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's all my fault. What a shame to get
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: you into such a mess. Please forgive me, Harvey.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to forgive, Donna. I'd do it again a
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: hundred times over for you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: Would you, Harvey?
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Poor Victor, what a sad thing.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: No one must ever know, Harvey. Promise me if we
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: get out of this, promise me you'll never let anyone know.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: No one will ever learn from me.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: I got him. I got him.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: What on earth?
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: How did he get a gun?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Where'd he get it?
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: I got him.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Look.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Look.
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: A lizard. A big one.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I knew we'd find something.
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: Put that down.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: You can't eat that. There must be water around here.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: There must be.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Where'd you get that gun?
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: Out of the captain's locker.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Better take it easy with those shells. We may need them.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe I will.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: Have a drink?
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: No.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: All right. I'd sure like some water.
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: How about it?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: There's just enough for one of us to get back.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: If only one goes back, it'll be Donna.
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: Donna.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: How chivalrous. Who's got the water?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I have.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Let's keep moving. There's water around here.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: There must be. Now I'm going to find it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: Donna, if we don't find water, he's going to start
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: pleading for what you have. No matter how much he
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: raves or pleads, don't give it to him. Even if
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: he threatens us with a gun. Tell him he drank
• 21:21
  Speaker 12: it all. I want you to have the best break
• 21:23
  Speaker 12: out of this.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Harvey.
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: I found it. Water.
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: I found water.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: Hurry, Donna.
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: Hurry. Hurry.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Well, what about it?
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: What's the test show?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Just like all the rest. Full of lead and zinc
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: and heaven knows what else.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Poison, huh?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Where's Jen? How about some of that water? What water?
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: In Donna's canteen.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: There isn't any more.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Who drank it?
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: I did. You both did.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: You left none for me.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: You've got your whiskey.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: I can't drink whiskey all the time.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: You've done pretty well on it for several years.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: I've got to have some water.
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: Harvey, won't you?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Harvey, Harvey, Harvey.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Is that all you think about, Harvey?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: You should have married Harvey.
• 22:03
  Speaker 6: Perhaps you're right about that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: Are you sure that water's poison?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not drinking it. And I'm thirsty, too.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Maybe you're just waiting.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: For what?
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: But I can imagine a few things.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: We'd better stop here for the night. Are you very tired, Donna?
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Awfully.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Better try and get some sleep. Where are you going, Victor?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Just going to look around.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: May find something. I'm hungry.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I'm going to build a fire with this brush. Don't
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: get too far away.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: I'll be around. Don't worry.
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: Keep a close watch on your canteen, Donna. I have
• 22:33
  Speaker 12: an idea what he's up to. I'll try not to sleep,
• 22:35
  Speaker 12: but I'm dead tired.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: I'll do my best, Harvey.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: If he goes to sleep, I'll try to get that
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: gun away from him.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Good night, Donna.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Good night, Harvey.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: Night comes on. The fire burns low. Only a red
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: glow remains.
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: Donna, in spite of herself, drops off into a sound sleep.
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: Victor stirs from his place 20 feet away, looks about him,
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: and crawls silently toward the sleeping Donna.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Put it down.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: I want some water.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: There isn't any more. I think there is. You heard
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: what I said.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: You're lying.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: You have got some.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Victor, what is it?
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: You've got some water and you won't give me any. Harvey.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I'm wise to you.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: You don't want me to have any.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: You want me to die. You're in love with each other.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: You're drunk.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: What if I am in love with Harvey? What of it?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Donna.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: You want me out of the way. Either of you
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: is very thirsty.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: No.
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: Because you had some water. And you got it out
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: of that pool. You're lying to me. It's good water.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: You're crazy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: You sneaked it out of there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: While I was asleep.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: You tried to make me think it was poison.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I ought to shoot you both. All right, Victor, if
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: you're so positive. Go on down and drink out of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: the pool.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: That gives me an idea.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: I'll just find out if that water's poison. Go drink
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: some of it, Harvey.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Certainly not.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: I'll give you 30 seconds. It's poison, Victor. Go ahead,
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: drink or I'll shoot.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: No, don't do it, Harvey.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: Then supposing you drink some, Donna?
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Very well, I will.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Victor, it'll kill her.
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: Donna, wait.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I'll drink it. You're a fool, Victor. But come along.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: This is going to be very interesting.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Not as much as you think.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Get off of me.
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: Maybe that'll hold you, Harvey. Harvey.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I'm all right down there. Just hit my shoulder. I
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: hope you're satisfied now that it is poison, Victor.
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: Maybe. But you two are getting water for some place.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: Hand over that canteen, Donner.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Please, Victor. That's for Donner.
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: I'll take care of it for.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: All of us.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: And if either of you make a move toward me,
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: I'll shoot both of you. Good night. And sleep tight,
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: both of you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 10: The night slowly fades. The chill of dawn creeps in.
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: Then as the sun comes over the horizon, Harvey stirs fretfully,
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: opens his eyes and looks for Donner, She sits beyond
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: the dead embers of the campfire, her hands folded before her,
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: staring blankly into space. Harvey raises up with a start
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: and moves quickly to her side. Victor is sprawled on
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: his back, the hilt of a hunting knife protruding from
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: his breast.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Donna.
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: Donna.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: What's happened to Victor?
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: He's dead, Harvey.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Dead?
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: At night?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: By Jules, Donna.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's mine. Now no one will ever know. Will they, Harvey?
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: No.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: I had to.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: I had to.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Harvey, hello there.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: It's Dr.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Saunders.
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: Here we are.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Thank heavens we found you. Sighted a ship, built a
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: signal fire. They're waiting for us. Well, what's this?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Well, Victor must have gone crazy in the night and
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: stabbed himself.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Let me see. He's dead, Harvey. How'd this happen?
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I told you. He must have stabbed himself.
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: No, he didn't.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: I stabbed him. It's my knife. I got to thinking.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: I did it. I crept over and I stabbed him.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I see. When did you do this, Donna?
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: It was not more than an hour ago. I couldn't
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: help it, Doctor. I couldn't help it.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Please don't.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: There's nothing to fear.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: I didn't want anybody to know. Because of Alice.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: They won't know, Donna. You didn't kill him.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: What?
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: He's been dead for at least three hours.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Look at his eyes. Look at his lips and his tongue.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: The swelling of his stomach. Did you test the pool, Harvey?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Yes. Every pool we've come to has been heavy in
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: mineral content. I warned him, but he thought we were
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: lying to him. Last night, he pulled a gun and
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: took Donna's canteen. There wasn't much in it, but it
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: was all we had.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: He's been drinking whiskey, so a little water wouldn't satisfy him.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: So he drank from the pool. Poor Victor. I guess
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: it's just as well. Don't worry, Donna. No one will
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: ever know. Will they, Doctor? There's nothing to tell. Except
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Victor Jackson poisoned himself in a fit of extreme thirst.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: The End.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: No, Donna. No one will ever know. You did your best.
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: You tried hard to make things work out. But somehow
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: fate seemed to take things right out of your hands.
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: But you know better, don't you, Harvey? You know what happened.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Tell us, Harvey.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Tell us.
• 28:08
  Speaker 12: After Victor took the canteen from Donna and drank the
• 28:10
  Speaker 12: few swallows in it, he fell off to sleep. Then
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: I took the canteen and filled it from the poison pool.
• 28:17
  Speaker 12: I knew he'd wake up with a greater thirst, and
• 28:19
  Speaker 12: he did. But I'm not sorry.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: He's better off. And I found I do love Donna.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: And I'll take care of her for the rest of
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: her days.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: There you are.
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: From drama to tragedy. From tragedy to a Beautiful love
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: story wherein they will live happily ever after.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: The End.
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• 29:19
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• 29:23
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• 29:26
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• 29:32
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• 29:37
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• 29:42
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