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Inner Sanctum Mysteries - "Birdsong for a Murderer" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · The 50 Greatest Old Time Radio Shows | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Carl Warner finds solace in a room full of singing canaries,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: but a stormy night call from Chester Brule, a former
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: employee of Crag Mount Asylum, brings damaging knowledge and a
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: demand for money. This is Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Birdsong for
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: a Murderer, CBS episode 512, originally broadcast June 22, 1952.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Boris Karloff stars as Warner with Everett Sloan in a
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: story credited to Louis Vitas. Paul McGrath is your host.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: When Lieutenant Gregg finds a canary and its cage connected
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: to the inquiry, Warner's quiet home is drawn into suspicion
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: and an ominous secret from the asylum. Here is the
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: Good evening, friends of the creaking door.
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: This is your host to welcome you into the inner
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: sanctum once again.
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: Come in.
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: Our little place may not be a mansion, but it
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: has its advantages. For one thing, it's thoroughly scare-conditioned. The
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: scream pipes are always in good working order... And the
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: rent's quite reasonable. We get a cut rate. Well, you've
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: had your warning. Whatever happens from now on, you asked for.
• 1:45
  Speaker 3: Just be sure the family is provided for.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: And now to our happy little anecdote for tonight. Bird
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: song for a murderer.
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: My name is Carl Warner. I'm not a young man
• 2:06
  Speaker 4: any longer, but I don't mind that. I wasn't very
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: happy when I was young. Now, well, at least I'm
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: not unhappy. And late at night, after Elaine has gone
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: upstairs to bed, she's my wife.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: She's very pretty and younger than I am. Perhaps I
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: made a mistake in marrying her, but... Well, anyway.
• 2:31
  Speaker 4: Late at night, I go into the room where I
• 2:34
  Speaker 4: keep the birds. And then, listening to them sing, I
• 2:40
  Speaker 4: get as close to happiness as I can expect. I
• 2:45
  Speaker 4: stay an hour. And then I cover their cages. And
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: then they know it's time to sleep.
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: And they sleep.
• 2:57
  Speaker 4: Even on the stormiest of nights. This was a stormy night.
• 3:08
  Speaker 2: Someone knocked at the front door. It was late. We
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: know very few people. We kept to ourselves, mostly Elaine
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: and I, so.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: I was worried a little when I opened the door. Yes?
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  Speaker 6: Mind if I come in, Mr. Warner? It's kind of
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  Speaker 6: damp out.
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: No, of course not. You... You seem to know me.
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  Speaker 2: I do, don't I? But I don't know you.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Brule. Chester Brule. Chester Brule. I still
• 3:42
  Speaker 6: don't know... Remember?
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. What? What did you want?
• 3:51
  Speaker 6: Nice place you got here. Much nicer than the Crag Mount.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: Crag Mount?
• 3:57
  Speaker 6: Crag Mount Asylum for the insane.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: You... you worked there? I used to work there. This
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: is all very interesting.
• 4:08
  Speaker 6: Funny thing happened just before I left. One of the
• 4:12
  Speaker 6: inmates escaped. This baby was a homicidal maniac.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: Homicidal. Yeah, that's right. I don't see what all this
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  Speaker 2: has to do with me.
• 4:23
  Speaker 6: I didn't say it had. There was one funny thing
• 4:28
  Speaker 6: about this inmate.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 4:30
  Speaker 6: Loved canaries. Loved to listen to them sing. Psychiatrists at
• 4:36
  Speaker 6: Cragmount found it very interesting. Birdsong was the only thing
• 4:41
  Speaker 6: that kept the murderous impulses down. I, I... Mr. Warner,
• 4:46
  Speaker 6: I'm out of words. It's too bad. You're not doing badly.
• 4:51
  Speaker 6: Nice house, furnishings. Didn't I hear canaries singing before I
• 4:57
  Speaker 6: come into the house?
• 4:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe. Maybe you did.
• 5:00
  Speaker 6: So, uh, 5,000 in the morning? No.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: I think yes.
• 5:09
  Speaker 6: Otherwise, Cragmount will be happy to hear from me. 11
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  Speaker 6: Crescent Place. Room 2B, in the morning. You can show
• 5:21
  Speaker 6: me to the door now.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. Good night, Mr. Warner.
• 5:28
  Speaker 6: Till we meet again.
• 5:33
  Speaker 4: I watched him go out into the blackness and the
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: blackness swallow him.
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: The birds were quiet.
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: I thought for a moment of taking the covers off
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  Speaker 4: the cages and letting the birds sing and then... Then
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: I thought that tonight it might be better if I
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: didn't let the birds sing.
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay. Who is....
• 6:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, couldn't wait till morning, huh? I didn't expect it. Wait.
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: Wait, that knife. No.
• 6:20
  Speaker 6: No. I shouldn't have let it.
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Surprise. Surprise. Surprise. It had been a bad night.
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: I couldn't have slept more than two or three hours. Fortunately,
• 6:47
  Speaker 4: Elaine and I had separate rooms. And at breakfast the
• 6:51
  Speaker 4: next morning, she was.
• 6:54
  Speaker 2: Fresh and young and beautiful.
• 6:59
  Speaker 5: Carl.
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 7:00
  Speaker 5: Why are you staring at me in that funny way?
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: Nothing. You really shouldn't read at meals.
• 7:06
  Speaker 5: It's only the paper. So many exciting things happen. I
• 7:09
  Speaker 5: can't wait till I get to them.
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: Still.
• 7:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, isn't that terrible?
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: What is?
• 7:14
  Speaker 5: A man was murdered last night. Not very far from here.
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  Speaker 7: Crescent Place.
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: Crescent Place.
• 7:20
  Speaker 5: Such an odd name.
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  Speaker 7: Chester Brule.
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  Speaker 2: Carl, your coffee, Carl. Sorry, I... I wish you wouldn't
• 7:27
  Speaker 2: read the paper.
• 7:28
  Speaker 7: It says that his canary.
• 7:30
  Speaker 8: He had a canary, Carl.
• 7:31
  Speaker 5: Was singing when the landlady found the body. Oh, that's pathetic.
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: Elaine, I told you not to read that paper.
• 7:37
  Speaker 6: Give it to me.
• 7:39
  Speaker 5: Ricardo, you're tearing the paper up.
• 7:40
  Speaker 7: What's the matter?
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: I'm nervous this morning.
• 7:43
  Speaker 5: Don't remember you ever having been like this before.
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: I told you I was nervous.
• 7:47
  Speaker 6: Now look, darling.
• 7:49
  Speaker 5: Why don't you go into the aviary? Listen to the
• 7:52
  Speaker 5: birds for a while. You love them so, and they
• 7:56
  Speaker 5: have such a nice effect on you.
• 8:02
  Speaker 4: I went into the aviary, as she suggested, and I
• 8:06
  Speaker 4: listened to the birds. Quite a little while before I
• 8:11
  Speaker 4: stopped trembling.
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: Carl? Yes, dear?
• 8:16
  Speaker 5: Come into the kitchen.
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 8:18
  Speaker 8: I've been washing the breakfast dishes, darling, and found this
• 8:23
  Speaker 8: among them.
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  Speaker 2: Carving knife.
• 8:24
  Speaker 8: This isn't that funny. Besides, look at it. The blade's
• 8:28
  Speaker 8: all covered with brown steel.
• 8:30
  Speaker 6: I see.
• 8:31
  Speaker 5: Sure, I washed it after dinner last night. Did you
• 8:35
  Speaker 5: use it for anything?
• 8:37
  Speaker 2: No, darling. Give it to me and I'll wash it now.
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, I can do it. I just wondered what.
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, the door. Will you... No, you give me the knife.
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: And you answer the door. I said you answer the door.
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 8:53
  Speaker 5: There's nothing to shout about.
• 8:54
  Speaker 8: I don't know what's the matter with you this morning.
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: I washed the knife. Quickly, but carefully. Very quickly, but
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: very carefully. It didn't take long.
• 9:07
  Speaker 6: The.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: The stains hadn't hardened much. The brown stains.
• 9:15
  Speaker 7: Carl?
• 9:16
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 9:17
  Speaker 5: Someone to see you.
• 9:18
  Speaker 7: A man.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: What does he want?
• 9:19
  Speaker 7: He didn't say, except that it was important.
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: I'll go see him.
• 9:23
  Speaker 7: He said he's a lieutenant. A Lieutenant Greg. From the police.
• 9:29
  Speaker 4: There are 17 steps between the kitchen and our living room.
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  Speaker 2: I know because I counted them.
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: While I was walking to see Lieutenant Greg of the police.
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  Speaker 4: Seventeen steps to make my face polite, relaxed, smiling. But
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: would I be able to hide the trembling of my hands?
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: You're Lieutenant Gregg. My wife said you wanted to see me.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's right. Mr. Warner, did you know a man
• 10:02
  Speaker 6: named Chester Brule?
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: Chester Brule? Why, I can't say offhand.
• 10:08
  Speaker 4: I've got such a bad memory for names.
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: I may or I may not.
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: Why? He was murdered last night. You see, we found
• 10:17
  Speaker 6: your name and address in Brule's address book.
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  Speaker 2: I see.
• 10:21
  Speaker 6: We thought you might be able to help us.
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: Well, the fact that my name is in its address
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: book doesn't mean that.
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  Speaker 2: Prove anything? Well, of course not.
• 10:29
  Speaker 6: Would the fact that Brule used to be an attendant
• 10:32
  Speaker 6: in an insane asylum mean anything to you?
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: Why should it mean anything to me? Well, I didn't
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: say it should, Mr.
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: Warner. I just thought.
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: Well, it doesn't. Well, I guess that's that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: funny thing.
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  Speaker 6: There was a birdcage in Brule's room with a canary
• 10:46
  Speaker 6: in it. Singing its head off.
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: Huh? Well, lots of people are fond of canaries. Sure, sure.
• 10:53
  Speaker 6: What was funny about it is that Brule's landlady swears
• 10:56
  Speaker 6: Brule never had a bird. That.
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: That is funny.
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  Speaker 6: The way it looks, the killer knifed Brule and then
• 11:04
  Speaker 6: left the cage and the bird in it behind him.
• 11:07
  Speaker 6: Doesn't make any sense. Unless you figure that the guy
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: who killed Brule was insane.
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: The birds have been quiet.
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: but the slam of the door maybe started them off.
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: And I knew that somehow I would have to get
• 11:26
  Speaker 4: the cage and the bird in it out.
• 11:30
  Speaker 2: Of Boo's room. I didn't know how I'd do it,
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: but I'd do it.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: No matter how insane it was. It was dark when
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: I got to Crescent Place. Dark on a lonely street.
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: There was no one in front of the house. Nothing
• 11:58
  Speaker 4: to show that a man had died inside the night before.
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: With a knife in his throat. The door was open.
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: There was a dim light in the vestibule.
• 12:14
  Speaker 2: Leaving the stairs beyond in darkness. I went up them.
• 12:21
  Speaker 4: To the second floor. There's no one in the corridor.
• 12:28
  Speaker 4: The door of 2B opened and I went in.
• 12:37
  Speaker 2: There was no light.
• 12:40
  Speaker 4: The moon cast a pale glimmer over the room and.
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: Someone In a chair near the window. For a moment
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: I thought it was brood, but... But there was no blood.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: And then I realized it was a policeman in uniform.
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: Asleep.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: The cage was near the sleeping man. Would his sleep
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: be sound enough?
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: I reached out.
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: Lifted the cage, waked the door, and closed it. I.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: I was safe.
• 13:32
  Speaker 8: Clark?
• 13:36
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 13:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'm so glad you're home.
• 13:39
  Speaker 5: That Lieutenant Greg is here again.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: Greg?
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 13:41
  Speaker 5: In the bird room.
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: Why did you take him to the bird room?
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: He asked me to.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: All right. All right. Oh, Lieutenant Gregg. Oh, hello, Mr.
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: Warner. Quite a collection of canaries you've got here.
• 13:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, I have.
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: Were you home all last night?
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: Of course. This is still about Chester Brule's murder? Mm-hmm.
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: Say, remember my mentioning I thought that the man who'd
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: killed Brule and left the birdcage behind him must be insane?
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: Well, you did say something of the sort.
• 14:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. And then there's the fact that Brule used
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: to work with insane people.
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Begins to mesh, huh? Oh, I know very little about
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: police work. I hope I'm not boring you.
• 14:25
  Speaker 6: Anyway, it occurs to me maybe I'd better take a
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: trip up to Cragmount.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: I suppose going to asylum or any place else is
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: just part of your job.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
• 14:34
  Speaker 6: Uh, did I mention Cragmount was in asylum?
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Why, uh, you, uh, you must have.
• 14:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, well, I'll run up there and I wouldn't
• 14:46
  Speaker 6: be surprised if I get all the answers.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: What do you think? I think I'm going to.
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: Carl?
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: What is it, Elaine?
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: Well, it's so late, I thought.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, I can take a hint, Mrs.
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: Warner. Don't bother showing me to the door.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: He seems like a very nice man. Carl, stop it.
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: What?
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: That's dear.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: If I didn't know you so well, I'd say you
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: were going mad.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Carl? Go to bed, Elaine.
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: All right, darling. Oh, Carl, look.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Look at what?
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: The window, the garden. Lieutenant Gregg didn't go away.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: He's down there. Get away from that window. Go to bed.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not going.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: But he looks as if he's waiting down there for something.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: For what, Carl?
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: I knew what he was waiting for. I knew I
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: mustn't go to sleep. Things happen when you sleep.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Terrible things. But I haven't slept well the night before.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Not well at all. And there'd be the strain of
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: the day. And it was night now and dark.
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Gargan?
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Gargan? I was right.
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: I was right, only it wasn't Gargan.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Such a lovely morning, Carl.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Lovely.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: I looked for Lieutenant Greg as soon as I got up.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: He wasn't in the garden anymore.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: He must have got tired. Gone home. Or back to headquarters.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: Wherever policemen go.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, dear.
• 17:19
  Speaker 7: That's the Swenson's dog. He's got into our garden again.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: I'll have to get him out.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Elaine, don't.
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: Don't you dig up all the flowers looking for bones.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Elaine. Maybe. Maybe he won't be there. Elaine. Where are you?
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Under the tree.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: What?
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: What?
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Look.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: Lieutenant Greg.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: He is thrown.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Come inside.
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: The kitchen.
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: Carl, where are you going?
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: The kitchen.
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: What are you doing?
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: The drawer. Silverware.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: It's here.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: The carving knife.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Carl, I thought you washed it last night. I guess
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: you didn't.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: You'd be wrong. I did wash it last night.
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: But the stains are still there. The brown stains.
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: These stains.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Fresh ones, Elaine. Get out of my way. But... I've
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: got to go to the bird room.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Carl, please don't go away from me.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Carl! I was holding the carving knife in my hand.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Started to put it down and then... I held on
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: to it anyway. It would make taking the covers off
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the cages awkward, but... I held on to it anyway.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: The birds were still.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: They remained still unless I took the covers off.
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: Elaine!
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: Carl, you must tell me what's wrong.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Don't come any closer. Elaine, please, not any closer.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: You've got that knife in your hand.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: The one with the brown stings.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, Carl.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Shh, don't say anything.
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: How?
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: The night before last?
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Elaine, don't ask questions. That's dangerous.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: You were out of the house last night when Lieutenant
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: Greg was killed.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I was asleep.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: You have the knife, Carl?
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: Give it to me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: Please, Carl.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: No.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Stay where you are.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: All right. You may keep the knife. Because, look, Carl.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: A revolver.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Lieutenant Greg's revolver.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Elaine, give that to me. Oh, no.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: I took it from Lieutenant. Gregg last night. After he
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: stopped crying.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: They always cry when you.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Elaine.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: Didn't like it the way you've been looking at me, Carl.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: You were thinking that maybe you'd have to send.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: Me back to Craigmount.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I wasn't.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: You were, Carl.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: I know you were.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: After Chester Brew died.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Elaine.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: Stop where you are.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: All right, but.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: Keep your hands away from the birdcage.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Don't pull off the covers.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, Carl.
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: I've hurt you.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Never mind.
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: But I didn't want to. Are you going to cry
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: like the others?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: It was my fault. I loved you too well. I.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I really killed those others. Not you, my darling.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: That's a very silly thing to say.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: And I've become quite angry. I am quite angry. Carl,
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: you silly.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: You pulled the covers off the cage.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Carl.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Carl, I'm speaking to you.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: Those birds, I don't like them.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: Carl?
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, poor Carl.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: He's dead.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: I loved him, and now he's dead.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: But anyway, he didn't cry.
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: He didn't cry.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Well, there it is. And so sweet.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: The story of a couple of lovebirds who, instead of
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: billing and cooing, went in for killing and shooting. Of course,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: it was all little Elaine's idea. All Carl did was
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: cover up. Well, friends, it's time once again to close
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: that creaking door. Until next week at the same time
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: when we'll be back with a little hunk of horror.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You'll be sure to listen, won't you?
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Until next week, then.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Good night. Pleasant dreams.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Inner Sanctum Mysteries concludes with Birdsong for a Murderer. Until
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: our next visit to the mysterious side of radio, good night.