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Suspense - "Lazarus Walks" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: After Roger Holcomb is resuscitated following a period of clinical
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: death during surgery, his relationship with truth and lies changes,
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: drawing the attention of psychiatrist Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Graham.
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  Speaker 1: This is Suspense, Lazarus Walks, Episode 9, originally broadcast on
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  Speaker 1: October 1st, 1943. Orson Welles stars as Dr. Graham, with
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  Speaker 1: Hans Conrad as Roger Holcomb. Joe Kearns is the man
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  Speaker 1: in black.
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  Speaker 3: Robert L.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Richards prepared the radio adaptation from an original story by J.
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  Speaker 1: Marion Speed under CBS producer William Speer. The setting moves
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  Speaker 1: from an operating room to the circle around Dr. Graham
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  Speaker 1: as Holcomb adjusts to the condition that followed surgery. And now,
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: For you men and women in the armed forces of
• 2:06
  Speaker 6: the United Nations, we present one of America's top spine tinglers,
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  Speaker 6: a radio rebroadcast of a program dedicated to the mysterious,
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  Speaker 6: the unusual, and sometimes the supernatural. program of Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: This is the truth. You understand? The truth. It must
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  Speaker 2: be the truth.
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  Speaker 4: It has to be. I, Robert Wensley Graham, a doctor
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  Speaker 4: and psychiatrist by profession, do hereby of my own free
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  Speaker 4: will and volition, albeit with deepest regret, make the following
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  Speaker 4: full and complete statement relative to that all but unbelievable
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  Speaker 4: series of events which has brought such disaster and misfortune
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  Speaker 4: to my house, particularly to my poor wife, Isabel. It
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  Speaker 4: had its beginning, properly speaking, some two months ago, to
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  Speaker 4: be exact, on the evening of July 25th. We were
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  Speaker 4: in the drawing room, Isabel at the piano, practicing, as
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  Speaker 4: she said. Around Jane and I on the opposite sides
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  Speaker 4: of the room.
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  Speaker 3: Isabel, what's the matter? I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I can't seem to keep my mind on anything anymore,
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  Speaker 7: even my music.
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  Speaker 3: Nerves.
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  Speaker 2: Nerves. Isabel. Yes, Robert?
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  Speaker 4: I don't wish to distress you, but it's going on
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  Speaker 4: for quite a little while now. It's not getting any better.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I know. Let's not discuss it, shall we?
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  Speaker 2: We should let me prescribe treatment for you.
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  Speaker 3: I could prescribe something for her.
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  Speaker 4: She can do remarkable things now with just the common
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  Speaker 4: old drugs under proper control.
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  Speaker 9: Drugs?
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  Speaker 3: It's not drugs that she needs. It's to get out
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  Speaker 3: of this house for a while. It's to get back
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  Speaker 3: to the concert stage where she belongs. It's work. Hand chain, please.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I don't believe in beating around the bush.
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  Speaker 3: You're an artist.
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  Speaker 9: You've got talent.
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  Speaker 3: There's no sense in your trying to subordinate yourself to
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  Speaker 3: somebody else. Hand chain, that's enough. I'm not subordinating myself
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  Speaker 3: to anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Really, Aunt Jane, you mustn't interfere, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Robert doesn't want me to go back on the stage.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, it isn't that I don't want you to go back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm proud of you. You know that.
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  Speaker 4: It's only because I think, because I know that going
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  Speaker 4: back to a professional career in your.
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  Speaker 2: Present mental condition would be terribly harmful.
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  Speaker 3: I know, Robert. I know you're right.
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  Speaker 2: After all, I'm a doctor. It's my business to know
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  Speaker 2: these things. I get it. Probably the hospital.
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 8: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's Dr. Graham.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 10: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Well, when would you like to see me? All right, fine. No, no,
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  Speaker 2: no trouble at all. Very well, I'll be expecting you. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: He's a very good headman. Who do you suppose that was?
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Roger Holcomb. Do you remember the case?
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  Speaker 3: Roger Holcomb? I remember it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you do.
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  Speaker 4: The fellow who was brought back from the dead, as
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  Speaker 4: the newspapers put it, about a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 4: He really was dead for four full minutes, as far
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  Speaker 4: as medical science was concerned. Then Bates brought him around.
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  Speaker 4: It was nine days' wonder.
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  Speaker 2: At the time.
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  Speaker 3: What does he want to see you about?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Something to do with his experience, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: He was in a terribly agitated state.
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  Speaker 4: The fellow had been walking up and down in front
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  Speaker 4: of the house for an hour, trying to get up
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  Speaker 4: courage to ring the bells.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, a phone from the corner drugstore.
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  Speaker 3: Why, the poor man. Why in the world should he
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  Speaker 3: do that?
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  Speaker 4: Anxiety neurosis. They hounded him, you know, in the most
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  Speaker 4: shocking way. Got out of the hospital. Preachers and spiritualists
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  Speaker 4: and movie agents, just plain fakers.
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  Speaker 2: People trying to find out if he remembered anything.
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  Speaker 4: Of the four minutes he was supposed to be dead.
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  Speaker 4: People just trying to exploit him. Oh, must be Holcomb now.
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  Speaker 4: Take him into the office.
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  Speaker 8: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Graham? Yes, you're Roger Holcomb?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Come in. Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Holcomb. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You come this way, please, to my office. Now, just
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  Speaker 4: sit down anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Lie down on the couch, if you like. You look tired.
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  Speaker 2: I am tired. Tired and... Give me your hand, please.
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  Speaker 11: For heaven's sake, there's nothing wrong with my pulse. If
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  Speaker 11: that's all you think it is, I'll go.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you come to me, Mr. Holcomb? You know
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  Speaker 2: my history. Yes, most medical men do. Up until your... Disappearance?
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  Speaker 8: Most medical men do, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Then they tell me I'm crazy. Do you think you are, Mr. Holcomb?
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  Speaker 2: I see.
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  Speaker 8: You're like all the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Let go of me, please. Just a minute, Mr. Holcomb.
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  Speaker 2: You came to me for advice. Treatment.
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  Speaker 11: I suggest you tell me your story. Well, I was
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  Speaker 11: told you specialized strange cases. Things that other men can't explain.
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  Speaker 2: That's true in a way.
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  Speaker 8: You know what happened when I got out of the
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  Speaker 8: hospital Yes Followed.
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  Speaker 11: Me, questioned me, hounded me Day and night Trying to
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  Speaker 11: find out if I remembered anything If I'd experienced anything
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  Speaker 11: Beyond the grave Yes, I remember that Well, then you
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  Speaker 11: remember that my answer was always the same That I
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  Speaker 11: remembered nothing That I knew.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing Well, I was wrong Oh? What did you experience
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  Speaker 2: during those four minutes?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know But it must have been something Something
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  Speaker 11: I don't even dare to think about.
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  Speaker 2: How do you know this?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it happened the first time on a boat trip,
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  Speaker 11: which I'd taken to recover my health. I found myself
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  Speaker 11: chatting with a woman who was seated at my table
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  Speaker 11: in the dining salon. She found occasion, as such women
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  Speaker 11: often will, to mention her age. She said, after all,
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  Speaker 11: I'm not yet 40. And then it happened.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 11: Well, from somewhere came crashing into my mind a certain
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  Speaker 11: knowledge of the exact day and year of that woman's birth.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm?
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  Speaker 11: And with it, a compulsion to speak out. A compulsion
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  Speaker 11: which I could no more have resisted than I could
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  Speaker 11: have resisted breathing. I said, Madam, you were born in May,
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  Speaker 11: weren't you? May 30th. And she looked at me in
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  Speaker 11: utter astonishment. We'd never even seen each other before in
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  Speaker 11: our lives.
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  Speaker 8: And said, yes.
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  Speaker 11: And then I added the date, the year 1900. See,
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  Speaker 11: she was well over 40. She'd lied to me. Innocent
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  Speaker 11: enough thing, but I had known the truth.
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  Speaker 9: And I'd been forced to speak....
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  Speaker 2: And I have been ever since. This phenomenon has occurred often?
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  Speaker 9: More times than I can remember.
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  Speaker 11: Every time a direct lie, no matter how trivial, is
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  Speaker 11: uttered in my presence, I suddenly know the.
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  Speaker 5: Answer to that lie.
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  Speaker 9: I know the truth. And I'm compelled to speak it.
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  Speaker 2: And this condition has existed only since your.
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  Speaker 8: Since my four minutes beyond the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Quite.
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  Speaker 9: It's as though in that brief time I... I glimpsed eternity.
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  Speaker 11: If I'd seen reveal all truth of all the ages,
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  Speaker 11: I can never tell you how horrible that's been. I've
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  Speaker 11: found that men, even the most honest of men, live
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  Speaker 11: by lies. Tell me, you have a family, friends who
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  Speaker 11: are understanding? Oh, for heaven's sake, doctor, don't you understand
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  Speaker 11: what this has done to me? Yes, I had a
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  Speaker 11: family and friends. Girl, I was going to marry. Today
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  Speaker 11: I'm an outcast, a riot. I'm shunned, feared, I'm I
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  Speaker 11: hate it. Yes, hate it.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Holcomb.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holcomb, I believe that this condition is very real to you.
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  Speaker 4: It causes you very real anguish. I want to help you.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think you can?
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  Speaker 2: I'm confident that I can.
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  Speaker 4: Suppose you could arrange to stay with me here at
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  Speaker 4: my home for a matter of weeks or months, if necessary.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'll do anything. Anything in the world to be
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  Speaker 8: a normal man again, but.
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  Speaker 2: But what?
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Graham, I.
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  Speaker 9: I can see that you still don't believe me.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 9: I beg of you. You don't know the terrible responsibility
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  Speaker 9: I'd be to you.
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  Speaker 11: I'd be like a spy, like some inexorable prosecutor from
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  Speaker 11: another world.
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  Speaker 2: Sir Holcomb, let me worry about that. All right.
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  Speaker 8: Is there anyone else in your household who might object?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: It's only my wife and her aunt. Have your own quarters.
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  Speaker 4: Be quite comfortable, I assure you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I did.
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  Speaker 8: It's a lovely house, but I've seen it before.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm rather lucky.
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  Speaker 4: I'm interested in research primarily. Not much money in that,
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  Speaker 4: you know. But a couple of years ago, I came
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  Speaker 4: into quite a nice inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: House went with it.
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  Speaker 9: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 11: The inheritance was not yours. It was your wife's. The
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  Speaker 11: house is your wife's. You were penniless.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. I don't know why I lied to you. Pride,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry. I told you I couldn't help it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go now. Please. Mr. Holcomb, my fault is the
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  Speaker 2: small matter. But you see now that I... I want
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  Speaker 2: to help you.
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  Speaker 9: Do you believe me now?
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  Speaker 2: I believe, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Holcomb, either that you are far more ill than I realized,
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  Speaker 4: or that in months to come, you and.
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  Speaker 2: I must venture into a realm... ever before explored by
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  Speaker 2: mortal man. It was utterly fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Yet it was true. I checked the facts again and again.
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  Speaker 4: He could not possibly have known, and yet.
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  Speaker 2: he knew. Could you imagine what this meant to a
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  Speaker 2: man of science?
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  Speaker 4: If I could fathom the depths of Roger Holcomb's mind...
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  Speaker 4: I could make a contribution to the body of scientific knowledge...
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  Speaker 4: absolutely without parallel in modern times. I'd be more famous
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  Speaker 4: than Pasteur or Ehrlich. There remained the problem of Isabel.
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  Speaker 4: I was aware of the danger, of course. I was
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  Speaker 4: acutely aware of the peculiarly delicate balance of her mind
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  Speaker 4: at that time. The fact that the presence of a
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  Speaker 4: man like Roger Holcomb... might be seriously detrimental to my
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  Speaker 4: rather well-conceived plans for Isabel. I believed I could control
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  Speaker 4: the situation... I determined to proceed. Actually, Holcomb's presence made
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  Speaker 4: itself felt almost immediately. The first incident came after he'd been.
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  Speaker 5: With us.
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  Speaker 3: Isabel, please stop that playing and listen to me. Aunt Jane,
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  Speaker 3: you know Robert has said I mustn't talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: That it's bad for me. I don't care what Robert says.
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  Speaker 3: But he's my doctor and my husband. And I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure that he should be either.
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  Speaker 2: Aunt Jane.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know much about psychiatry, but I do know
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  Speaker 7: that making trouble between a husband and a wife... I'm
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  Speaker 7: not making anything that.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't there already. And you know it. Good heavens, girl.
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  Speaker 3: Look at yourself. Look what's happened to you since your marriage.
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  Speaker 3: I've been sick. He's made you sick. That's ridiculous. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's just that he's afraid of losing you. Maybe he's
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  Speaker 3: even afraid of losing your money. But I'm absolutely convinced
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  Speaker 3: that whether he's meant to or not, he's made you
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  Speaker 3: believe there's something the matter with you that isn't. Aunt Jane,
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  Speaker 3: I simply forbid you to talk this way. Then now
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  Speaker 3: he brings this, this psychopath into the house. And don't
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  Speaker 3: bring Roger into it. He's Robert's patient. It's Robert's work
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  Speaker 3: and it's none of our business. What about your own work?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter?
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  Speaker 7: Aunt Jane, you simply don't understand. Robert is my husband.
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  Speaker 7: I trust him and I love him. Nothing can ever
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  Speaker 7: come between us. I'd destroy anything.
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  Speaker 3: I'd kill anyone who tried. Isabel. Isabel, do something. Before
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  Speaker 3: it's too late. Do what? Get away. Leave him. Divorce him. Anything.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I hope we're not interrupting.
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  Speaker 3: Of course not, darling. Hello, Roger.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Isabel.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon. How are you feeling, Roger?
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  Speaker 2: Better, I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think it would be better if we didn't discuss
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  Speaker 4: our states of mind, Isabel.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, of course. I'm sorry. Well, would you like me
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  Speaker 3: to play something for you? You know, I think I'm
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  Speaker 3: beginning to get the feel.
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  Speaker 9: Of it again.
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  Speaker 3: Really, I do.
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  Speaker 2: You're sure we haven't interrupted some conversation?
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  Speaker 3: Of course not. We were just discussing how helpful you've
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  Speaker 3: been in getting Isabel back to her work again. Roger.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 9: No, you were not.
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  Speaker 11: You were telling Isabel to divorce her husband.
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  Speaker 2: Isabel.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Roger, come back.
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  Speaker 2: Isabel, is that true?
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  Speaker 3: You brought him in here deliberately.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true?
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, I suppose. You've known how I felt
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  Speaker 3: for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm afraid I have.
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  Speaker 3: Robert, it was all so silly. She didn't mean it.
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  Speaker 2: I did mean it.
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  Speaker 3: But I did mean it. I'm sorry, Isabel. But I've
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  Speaker 3: been under this roof too long as it is. Oh, Jane,
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  Speaker 3: you're not leaving us. It's best, Isabel.
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, I think it's unquestionably best. Best that you
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  Speaker 2: go at once.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: She left us, of course. I'd always believed that Jane
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  Speaker 4: exercised an unfortunate influence over Isabel. I did not dream
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  Speaker 4: it had reached such a point as this. Yet this
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  Speaker 4: incident gave me my first insight into the relationship which
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  Speaker 4: was destined to develop.
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  Speaker 2: Between Isabel, Roger, and myself.
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  Speaker 4: The first and most obvious result was that within a
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  Speaker 4: matter of weeks, Isabel was to lose every friend she had.
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  Speaker 2: We became further estranged as each day passed.
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: It was difficult to speak of even the most casual
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: things with this strangely terrifying specter of truth always at
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: our elbow. The situation reached its inevitable climax the evening
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  Speaker 4: that Leopold Serinsky, the famous conductor of the Los Angeles Symphony,
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: was to call on Isabel with a view to resumption
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  Speaker 4: of her professional career under his auspices.
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  Speaker 2: I gave a great deal of thought to that evening.
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  Speaker 2: It had to be handled with great....
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  Speaker 3: Robert, you will help me, won't you?
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  Speaker 2: Of course I will, darling.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know whether you realize how important it is
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  Speaker 3: to me. I have nothing but the music now. I've
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: been working so hard.
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  Speaker 7: Playing sometimes half the night while you were asleep.
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  Speaker 2: I've heard you.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes it seems that the piano is all that's helping
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  Speaker 7: me to keep my sanity.
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  Speaker 4: Darling, I want you to let me prescribe something for you.
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  Speaker 4: By the time we face this thing, you're trouble, I mean.
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  Speaker 3: Robert, does he have to have dinner with us tonight?
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  Speaker 9: Roger.
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  Speaker 2: Isabel, you know how I stand on that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, but just this once.
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  Speaker 2: Even once, Isabel. Keep him in his room like a
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  Speaker 2: spoiled child and we have guests. Isabel, it might undo
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  Speaker 2: everything I've accomplished in weeks. Of course.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: You're right.
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  Speaker 2: Roger, come in.
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  Speaker 5: Robert, I... I was wondering if I might be excused
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  Speaker 5: just a night.
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  Speaker 2: You're having dinner with us, Roger.
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  Speaker 8: Must I?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: You know you must, Roger, and you know why.
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  Speaker 3: Why, Roger, don't you want to meet the great Leopold Surinsky?
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  Speaker 3: He's really a wonderful person.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, indeed, I would very much.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I made my debut with him in 1934.
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  Speaker 7: I did a concert with him every year until my.
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  Speaker 3: until I.
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  Speaker 2: Isabel, who was very talented, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I was? I am.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Roger, I'm going to play with him again. He
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: wants me to open the season in November. Can you
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: imagine what that means to me?
• 17:20
  Speaker 8: I'm so glad, Isabel.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: And Robert has finally given his consent. Haven't you, dear?
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. What was it you said, Isabel?
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: I said you'd given your consent to my playing with Sirinsky.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Why, Isabel, you... You know I don't want you to
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: think that I'd ever stand in your way.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: I know, dear. Roger, I'll do the Emperor Concerto. And
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: you will come to hear me. You do want to,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: don't you, Roger? Please, Isabel, don't ask things of me
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: that can't... What's the matter? What's the matter with both
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: of you? You act as though you thought I wouldn't
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: be able to appear. As though the whole idea were
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: hopeless or something.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Isabel, please.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I am going to play. I'll be better than I
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: ever was. You know I will, don't you? Don't you?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course, Isabel. You play wonderfully. Roger.
• 18:08
  Speaker 8: No, Robert.
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: You're very certain that Isabel will be prevented from ever
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: playing again.
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: I can't.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Death.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, Isabel.
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Forgive me. Forgive me, please.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: My death.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: No. Oh, no.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Please, Roger, it's not true. Tell me it isn't.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Roger, answer me.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Answer me. Roger, do you hear me? Answer me.
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Answer me!
• 18:39
  Speaker 12: Answer me!
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: When Serinsky arrived, I told him it'd be quite impossible
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: for Isabel to leave her room. The concert was cancelled,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: and indeed, to my knowledge, she's never touched the piano
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: since that day. By now, to even the most casual observer,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: it must appear only natural that Isabel had every motive
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: for a desperate, almost paranoid hatred of Roger Holcomb.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: This much was clear to me. The rest, not yet.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: But one thing, from any point of view, was certain.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I had to keep Roger and Isabel apart. Perhaps what
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: I feared was indeed inevitable. I honestly did not think
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: it so at the time. It's a precautionary measure. However,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: I prescribed a drug for Isabel, which she had last
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: consented to take.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: I gave her her own supply. She administered it to herself,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: as I had directed.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Roger?
• 19:33
  Speaker 12: Roger?
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: It's Isabel.
• 19:40
  Speaker 11: What do you want?
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Let me in, please.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Please, it's terribly important.
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: I know.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: But he said it would be all right this time.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You sure?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yes. Yes, please.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: Now, what do you want?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: I want to talk to you, that's all.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: What about that's so important?
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Roger, why don't you ever leave your room anymore?
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: Can't you guess?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Do you think I hate you?
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: Isabel, I don't know what to think anymore.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: You do, don't you?
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: I warned him.
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: I told him it would happen.
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: Now I'm going mad up here thinking of the anguish
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: I've caused you.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But, Roger, I don't. You must believe me.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: I know what it's been like for you having me here.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Roger, you see, for the first time in my life,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I think my husband is wrong about something.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: Wrong?
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Don't you see? He's been worried about both of us.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: And so this distrust has grown up between us.
• 20:37
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't distrust you, Isabella. You've been more wonderful
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: to me than I'm afraid.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: But you're afraid of me. And that amounts to the
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: same thing. And it's bad for the both of us.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: It's hurting both of us.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll often tell them I wanted to talk to you,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: beg your pardon.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, you don't have to do that. We're both sick.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: But I think if we saw each other sometimes, if
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: we talked the whole thing out, it would help us both.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: Well, does Robert think so, too?
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: No.
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: Then he didn't tell you it was all right to
• 21:09
  Speaker 11: see me?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: No. I lied to you.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: You what?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: I lied to you.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: You lied to me.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: And it didn't happen.
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: Isabel, don't you see?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: I am getting well.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: It didn't happen. I know. I don't think it does
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: happen anymore. Except with Robert.
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: With Robert?
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: What makes you think it does?
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Something about the way he acts. The way he is.
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, but Isabel, he is curing me. Perhaps you shouldn't.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Have come up with me. No, no, don't you understand?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: We must see each other. We must talk.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Now, listen to me.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Isabel.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Robert, something's happened that I must tell you about.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Please, you're completely overwrought. Oh, but Robert, if... I must insist, Isabel,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: why did you do this?
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: You have to have a sedative right away. Isabel, get
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the bottle from your room.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Mine?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, please, hurry.
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Robert, she lied to me.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I know. But, Roger, I must absolutely forbid
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: you to talk now. You must trust me.
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: All right, but.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Later, I want to have a long talk with you.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Of course we shall.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: Here it is.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I brought my hypodermic, too.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you did. The other one's mislaid, Summer. Will
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: you give it to him, please? I? Yes, I'm sorry,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: but this is upsetting me rather badly. My hands are shaking.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Robert, I'm terribly sorry.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Give him the hypodermic, the upper arm.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: That's right. Thank you. Leave us now, please, Elizabeth.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: How are you feeling now, Roger?
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: Well, I'm fine, Robert. I... I think I'm better than
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: I've been in months.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I know you're better. That's why I was so upset
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: to see you.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: Why, Robert?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I can't tell you all my reasons now, but you
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: must trust me and believe in me.
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: Oh, I do, but.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Only that I'm afraid for your health.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Roger. No.
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: You're afraid of murder.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: What?
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: Murder.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Roger, listen to me. Roger.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: Murder.
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: Roger, what are you talking about?
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Roger!
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: Roger!
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: It was clear to me now. I knew I must
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: take immediate action. I knew that the most terrible consequences
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: might result if Isabel.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Were alone with Roger. Even for a moment. But he
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: knew that he'd said so. There was no other explanation.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I thought it through most carefully.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: And yet no plans are perfect. No man is infallible. Isabel!
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: Nothing.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Don't lie to me, Isabel.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: You were coming from Roger's room.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: No.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: No, I swear I wasn't.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Isabel, don't you understand that you're sick? I've insisted on
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: these things for your own good and his.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: All right. I was going to talk to him, but
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: I haven't.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, Isabel.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Isabel.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Why do you try to tell me that?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: But it's true, Robert. Really true.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Is it? Roger? Roger?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Look.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Robert. No, it couldn't be. It is.
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: He's dead.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Dead? Hypodermic by his side. The drug. Your drug. Your hypodermic.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: But it's only a statistic.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Except that in large enough quantity, it's fatal. You knew that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, Robert, don't listen to me.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Isabel, why? Why, I warned you.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Robert, look at me. It's Isabel. It's your wife. You can't... Oh, no.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Where are you going? Come back.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to call the police.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: Come on.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: It was perhaps the most terrible decision a man ever
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: had to make, even though it did come not as
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: a shock to me, even from my point of view
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: as a scientist. It was terrible enough. Yet it had
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: to be done, and I had done it. I did
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: not speak to her as we waited, and she made
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: no further attempt.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: To appeal to me.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: She seemed utterly stupefied, perhaps as a result of the
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: drugs she'd herself been taking.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Perhaps because she.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Suddenly realized she.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Was hopelessly trapped. When the police arrived, I told the
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: story with.
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: A little emotion.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: Yes, yes, there are fingerprints all right on both the bottles.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Those would be my wife's, of course. They both belong
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: to her.
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: Is that true, Mrs.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Graham?
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: Graham, do I understand then that you are formally charging
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: your wife with the murder of Robert Holcomb?
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Well, you could hardly expect me to do that, could you?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: I'm simply telling you the facts.
• 25:41
  Speaker 10: But you said she hated Holcomb, and you knew it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: My wife has been mentally ill for some time, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: many people can testify to that.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You'll plead insanity. Dr.
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: Graham, I can't tell you how sorry I am, but
• 25:51
  Speaker 10: the things you have told me add up to only
• 25:54
  Speaker 10: one thing. You yourself obviously recognize.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: Your wife, Isabel Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: What did you say?
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: I said your wife, Isabel Graham, murdered Roger Holcomb. No.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I murdered him. I tried to make it appear that
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Isabelle had done it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: And I succeeded.
• 26:30
  Speaker 12: But I killed him. No plans are perfect.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: No man is infallible. Yes, I killed Roger Holcomb. And
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: he himself revealed the truth. I'd planned to dispose of
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Isabel for many months. I'd never loved her. I'd loved
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: only science. I wanted her money and Holcomb found it out.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: That was the risk I ran. Did any chance lie
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: in his presence? Either by Isabel or myself. Bring out
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: the truth and it did. Had no alternative once he'd
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: discovered that. But to kill him? Easy enough to throw
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the blame on his adult. I had not counted on
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: that terrible compulsion for the truth. That strange affliction of
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: Roger Holcomb's. His power over me.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Did it transfer itself at his death to me? Or
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: was it How did it ever end this way?
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: It's a fascinating case.
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: And so closes Lazarus Walks.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Starring Orson Welles. Tonight's tale of.
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: Suspense.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: This rebroadcast is a presentation of the Armed Forces Radio Service.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: This was suspense.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Lazarus Walks, originally heard October 1st, 1943. Follow suspense for
• 29:29
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