1 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,960 Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G. 2 00:00:22,199 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 2: Marshall. All of us are selfish to some degree. We 3 00:00:27,039 --> 00:00:31,559 protect our own desires and dreams, but within reason. For 4 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:34,960 we inhabit a world where we must make certain compromises 5 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:39,359 and respect other people's feelings. We had better for the 6 00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:43,359 quickest way to lose everything is to try to have 7 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:47,039 everything the way we want it. For then the fates 8 00:00:47,039 --> 00:00:50,240 that dog all our heels have a way of catching up. 9 00:00:56,679 --> 00:01:01,439 Speaker 3: There's no going back, no going forward. 10 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,239 Speaker 4: Where do I go from here? 11 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 5: You Wrent Jevy wanting. 12 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: To your writing. 13 00:01:19,239 --> 00:01:38,519 Speaker 5: The not the con England limmon you. 14 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 2: Our mystery drama The Plastic Man was written especially for 15 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,879 the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Don Scardino. 16 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,680 It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division. I'll 17 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:13,360 be back shortly with Act one. As I said in 18 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:17,639 the beginning, this is a story of an extraordinarily selfish man, 19 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:22,639 a sort of product of our times. George Hartford, who 20 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,759 could well be named the Plastic Man. Note his action 21 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,960 and reaction to the oldest and most productive relationship in 22 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:31,960 the history of man. 23 00:02:37,159 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: Come on, Jane, knock it off. It isn't the end 24 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:40,360 of the world. 25 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:44,360 Speaker 6: Not yours, George. You've made that quite clear. 26 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: I wanted to lay it on the table. No messing around, 27 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:52,120 a clean break, the least sweat, the least sweat. 28 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 3: Well, it's one description for the end. 29 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: Of a of a love. 30 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:57,639 Speaker 6: Of fair I suppose. 31 00:02:57,800 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: Now. 32 00:02:58,159 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 6: Don't get me wrong, Babe, I really don't anymore. 33 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,439 Speaker 1: You shook me up, but you woke me up. Now 34 00:03:05,479 --> 00:03:08,159 you're with it, kid. Look if we don't swing anymore. 35 00:03:08,319 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 6: Oh, I love your succinct statement in mod lingo we 36 00:03:13,039 --> 00:03:16,800 don't swing anymore? May I remind you that we were 37 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,240 going to be married. I wasn't swinging with you. I 38 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:22,000 thought I was building something. 39 00:03:21,719 --> 00:03:25,039 Speaker 1: For the future, okay, Jane, So it just didn't work 40 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,719 out like that someone else. 41 00:03:27,039 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 3: Oh, you're cutting out. 42 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 6: Because this was getting just a little too serious for you. 43 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:35,879 Speaker 3: It might be the end of fun and games. 44 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:38,919 Speaker 6: You were on the point of being asked to contribute 45 00:03:39,039 --> 00:03:39,919 something in return. 46 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:43,879 Speaker 1: Jane doesn't have to be all this much of a dragon. 47 00:03:44,039 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 4: Oh, ferish the thought. 48 00:03:46,439 --> 00:03:49,639 Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to ruffle your peacock feathers for the moment, 49 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:51,800 but just one comment. 50 00:03:52,879 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 3: You are heading for a rude awakening. 51 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,479 Speaker 6: Someday one of your women won't be as accommodating as 52 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:00,879 I am. 53 00:04:01,039 --> 00:04:04,159 Speaker 1: Stop the car. What are you talking about? You're only 54 00:04:04,199 --> 00:04:04,919 halfway home. 55 00:04:05,159 --> 00:04:07,719 Speaker 6: I just discovered I'm not even that far. All I 56 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,159 want is to get off. 57 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: George, any big bread? How's it going? Mat fine? Just fine? Hey? 58 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:24,319 What are you doing home so early? I thought you 59 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,639 had a big heavy date with Jane. We split split 60 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,879 it just like that, just like that? What was the quarrel? 61 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,079 I was getting kind of heavy, so I wanted out. 62 00:04:36,079 --> 00:04:37,040 How did she take it? 63 00:04:37,639 --> 00:04:37,839 Speaker 4: Oh? 64 00:04:37,959 --> 00:04:40,879 Speaker 1: You know, Dame's big fuss over. Nothing got anything to 65 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,720 eat in the joint, Nothing but humble pie, a little bread. Huh. 66 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 2: Hey, cupboard is bear and you wouldn't eat any of 67 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:50,000 it even if it was there. 68 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: So I'll settle for a beer. Then maybe I'll do 69 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,360 a little prowling, pick up a pizza, and who knows, 70 00:04:58,439 --> 00:05:01,360 maybe even something more. Nurse hmm, you. 71 00:05:01,319 --> 00:05:03,720 Speaker 2: Know you got to do something about that sex drive, 72 00:05:04,399 --> 00:05:06,199 or one of these days you're gonna get your head 73 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:07,240 caught in a ringer. 74 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,240 Speaker 1: Okay, why don't you give me a reading shrink? Huh? 75 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,240 I'm all stretched out on the couch. How'd you like 76 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:14,680 to probe my inner psyche? 77 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,399 Speaker 2: You haven't got a psyche. All you got is one 78 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,439 large itch and no conscience. 79 00:05:19,879 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: Oh so much for brotherly love. I can't even get 80 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:26,839 a free treatment from the family psychiatrist. So you don't 81 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:27,600 want to talk to me. 82 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 2: I'll have to hold it, George. Matter of fact, I 83 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:35,319 do want to talk to you. I'm moving out. 84 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:40,319 Speaker 1: Hey, wait a minute, I'm that bad. You really sare me? 85 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:42,839 Speaker 2: No, No, that's beside the point at the moment. You know, 86 00:05:42,879 --> 00:05:45,480 I'm a full resident now and Fran just got a raised, 87 00:05:45,519 --> 00:05:48,240 so we've been looking at apartments. We figured we can 88 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:49,399 go ahead and now get married. 89 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,199 Speaker 1: It's a ball in Shane. Huh, it's a big step man. 90 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:59,040 Why Russia. Well, I wouldn't expect you to understand, George. 91 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,959 I want to live with Fran. Okay, fine, but marriage? 92 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:07,079 Who needs it these days? Look, why tie yourself down. 93 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,240 I wouldn't expect you to understand that either, George. Oh, 94 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:14,040 come on, old sober sides. You just don't see where 95 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,519 it's at. I mean, like today is all wide open. 96 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,399 It doesn't work that way for everybody, George. Okay, okay, 97 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,079 what's your bag is yours and what's mine is mine? 98 00:06:26,439 --> 00:06:31,279 Speaker 2: The trouble is gorgeous, Gee, you keep trapping the other sex, 99 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:32,759 and it's like you were a bounty hunter. 100 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:34,519 Speaker 1: It worries me. 101 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,519 Speaker 2: Why well, first of all, because some pretty nice girls 102 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,879 get damn roughed up by you, Jane for one. 103 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,160 Speaker 1: Oh come on, look, don't make me sound like a 104 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,639 child molester. Any day I play around with is old 105 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:50,360 enough to know the score. It's more than just a game. 106 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:53,439 He's an obsession, my friend, And as. 107 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 7: A psychiatrist, I don't particularly like its implications. 108 00:06:57,079 --> 00:06:59,879 Speaker 1: Oh oh, brother, here we go with a don war 109 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,399 on casting over a bit again. It's basically an inferiority complex, 110 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:07,360 and I'm driven to prove myself or else it's an 111 00:07:07,519 --> 00:07:11,160 edifice complex down deep in my ear or whatever. I 112 00:07:11,199 --> 00:07:12,160 hated pop and I. 113 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 2: Will well, yeah, yeah, it may be funny to you, 114 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:17,360 but you might be surprised if you could understand how 115 00:07:17,439 --> 00:07:22,040 much basic truth there is in it. But that isn't 116 00:07:22,079 --> 00:07:26,560 the main thing, So what is? It's just your arrogant, 117 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,120 selfish insensitivity. 118 00:07:29,079 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: You know what you are. You're a plastic man. 119 00:07:33,639 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 2: You haven't got one real human emotion in you, And 120 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:39,879 I'm sorry for all the nice girls you've twisted up inside. 121 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,600 Give the next one a break, Let her know about 122 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:45,360 you from the start, so at least she goes into 123 00:07:45,399 --> 00:07:46,279 it with her eyes open. 124 00:07:46,319 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 1: You got the wrong idea about women, math. They're a 125 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:50,240 hell of a lot tougher than we are. 126 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,879 Speaker 7: I am not gonna get trapped in an argument. I 127 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:57,800 just hope you don't get trapped one of these days 128 00:07:57,839 --> 00:07:59,920 with one of them who won't be as obliging as 129 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,279 they all have been up to now. Your luck can't 130 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:08,120 last forever, sooner or later you are gonna get caught 131 00:08:08,199 --> 00:08:09,279 in a buzzsaw. 132 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 1: Don't say I didn't want you. My brother Matt was 133 00:08:15,959 --> 00:08:20,279 a good guy, but just a little square. And the chicks, well, 134 00:08:20,519 --> 00:08:22,879 you know how it is. You take them as they come. 135 00:08:23,839 --> 00:08:25,920 Like I say, it's a big world. And if you 136 00:08:25,959 --> 00:08:29,160 want to hang yourself up with one old lady permanently, that's. 137 00:08:28,959 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 4: Your own business. Me I like to hang loose. 138 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 1: I never figured old George here we'll get hung up 139 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:41,559 on one and surely not the way it happened. Hi, 140 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:45,039 you dropped your son oil in the sand? 141 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:51,639 Speaker 4: Oh did I? You're very kind? Are you one of 142 00:08:51,639 --> 00:08:52,399 the staff here? 143 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:54,679 Speaker 1: No? I'm a guest? 144 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:00,759 Speaker 4: What? Oh? Just your I mean black one of them? 145 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: Thanks for the good word. These jocks that work. The 146 00:09:04,759 --> 00:09:08,080 staff here are really built. No, I'm just taking a 147 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:11,080 week off from the daily grind. And the friend said, 148 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,879 these club pacificos really sway. I don't know, maybe I 149 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,559 missed the season until now. 150 00:09:19,159 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 4: What do you mean, Well, I haven't run into you 151 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:23,039 up till now. 152 00:09:23,799 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: You just get here. 153 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 4: Well, I know we've been here a couple of days, 154 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:30,919 but we drove down. We've been touring the countryside. 155 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: Some hot work this weather. Me. I'll take the water 156 00:09:36,639 --> 00:09:40,200 or a nice long drink by the pool. H Hey, 157 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:43,799 it's about that time. Can I buy you what? Well? 158 00:09:43,879 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 4: I why not? If you will wait long enough for 159 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,360 me to take one quick dip in the seat, wash 160 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:51,000 the sand off. 161 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: She came up from that beach lounger and one long, 162 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,879 fluid move like a cat, my breed. I watched her 163 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,200 run down and into the water for one piece suit. 164 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,679 He didn't hide any of that figure, long waist, long legs. 165 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:13,960 The club was beginning to live up to its reputation. 166 00:10:15,919 --> 00:10:20,559 They're no law right right, How many beads do you want? Hey? 167 00:10:20,759 --> 00:10:21,960 I said? The drinks are on me. 168 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,759 Speaker 4: Huh, I pay my own freight the way we travel. 169 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:32,639 Speaker 1: Ah, there's that we again groom me husband, and he 170 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,919 lets you out without a leash. 171 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 4: It's a free country. He's confined to our cabin. He 172 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,600 picked up amoebic dysentery some years ago in India. 173 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:44,399 Speaker 1: It was hell to get rid of India. You travel 174 00:10:44,440 --> 00:10:45,399 a lot, he does. 175 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:47,799 Speaker 4: He's a parapsychologist. 176 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,759 Speaker 1: I heard the word plw me in a little deeper. 177 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 4: It's the branch of psychology that deals with unexplained phenomena clairvoyants, esp. 178 00:10:57,799 --> 00:10:59,679 Mental telepathy. 179 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: Ask a silly question, you get out a complex answer, 180 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:09,080 So no more questions except like, well, my name's George, 181 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,200 George Hartford, what's yours? 182 00:11:11,759 --> 00:11:13,519 Speaker 4: You're not an insurance salesman? 183 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,200 Speaker 1: No cars? Business is a little slow right now. That's 184 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,159 why I thought i'd catch a week off, or was 185 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:24,159 till I met Did I catch your name? 186 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 4: Or Laura? Laura Prentice? Here's looking at you. 187 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,519 Speaker 1: That's fair enough. It's all I've done since I set 188 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:35,039 eyes on you. 189 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,039 Speaker 4: I noticed, listen, it's. 190 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,600 Speaker 1: Kind of hot out here in the sun. My cabin 191 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:47,200 is air conditioned, so is ours. Well, I just meant, 192 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,360 why disturb your husband? Now? 193 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 4: That is definitely not a silly question here. 194 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: What's this? 195 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 4: My deeds buy us both another drink, George, and let's 196 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:08,919 see how cool your pad really is? 197 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,759 Speaker 1: What? Oh? 198 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 4: Why did I do this? 199 00:12:18,759 --> 00:12:20,759 Speaker 1: Come on, Laura, there's no crime. 200 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 4: I know it isn't to you. Some of us are 201 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,200 fashioned a little differently. 202 00:12:25,399 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 1: Hey, that's only an illusion, baby. It's natural, and whatever 203 00:12:29,399 --> 00:12:30,480 is natural is right. 204 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:33,399 Speaker 4: You wouldn't understand it isn't morals I'm concerned with. 205 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: Well then what. 206 00:12:36,279 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 4: Oh? 207 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,639 Speaker 3: I could never make you understand in a million years, George. 208 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: So that's the kiss off? Huh? 209 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,279 Speaker 4: It ought to be, but. 210 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,399 Speaker 3: It's too good for me to have the strength of 211 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:53,799 will to let it go that easily. 212 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,840 Speaker 1: No, you're talking, no, not to you. 213 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 4: Tomorrow, away from the club, I have my car. We'll 214 00:13:02,679 --> 00:13:05,000 drive somewhere for the day. I'll say I'm going shopping 215 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:11,279 in Puerto Valerso or Guadalajara. You're the lucky sinner. You 216 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:15,639 don't need any excuse. I'll meet you at the parking 217 00:13:15,639 --> 00:13:16,799 lot after breakfast. 218 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: Oh how do I find you? 219 00:13:18,799 --> 00:13:23,799 Speaker 4: It isn't hard. It's the only green Mercedes and the 220 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:30,080 license plate is sixty nine ninety nine. I wanted seven 221 00:13:30,159 --> 00:13:34,799 thousand for luck, but I never could swing it till tomorrow. 222 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:37,159 If you want to risk it. 223 00:13:42,639 --> 00:13:45,840 Speaker 1: She was kind of offbeat, this chick and married and all, 224 00:13:45,919 --> 00:13:48,799 so I might have passed her up if it hadn't 225 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:52,200 been for the car I flipped when I saw it, 226 00:13:52,919 --> 00:13:57,720 a Mercedes fifty six gold Wing Coop in British racing green. 227 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,600 Like she said, I mean classic zero to sixty and 228 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:07,840 nine seconds flat, quick ratio, steering, independent suspension and handles 229 00:14:07,919 --> 00:14:11,200 like as part of the road. Plus the price tag 230 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:17,080 twelve to fifteen thou in mint condition, And this baby was. 231 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:21,279 While I was drooling over it, my other babe, also 232 00:14:21,639 --> 00:14:23,279 mint condition, arrived. 233 00:14:25,159 --> 00:14:28,039 Speaker 3: This yours a gift from my husband. 234 00:14:30,399 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: You know what you've got here? 235 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 4: I ought to. It's what I asked for. 236 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,039 Speaker 1: I never saw a fifty six in green before. 237 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,159 Speaker 4: It took a little digging to find it. I wanted 238 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:48,440 it to match my eyes, Cat's arrest, the better to 239 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,960 see you with. Do you want to drive it? 240 00:14:52,759 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: Do I climb in? Big Mama? 241 00:14:57,440 --> 00:15:02,519 Speaker 4: You can like my car only if it's second after me. 242 00:15:04,039 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: It's a tough choice, but I like your moving parts better. Okay, 243 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:12,399 we're too straight. 244 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:12,879 Speaker 4: To hell, lover. 245 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:19,759 Speaker 1: Or heaven. I started up that dream boat, and she 246 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,960 was heaven under my hands, just as Laura would be later. 247 00:15:25,039 --> 00:15:27,279 But I didn't know was that her husband was watching 248 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,720 us and the living hell that was in store for me. 249 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 2: It's hard to have much sympathy, if any, for our 250 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,720 plastic man George. He's an expert in taking without giving. 251 00:15:49,759 --> 00:15:52,200 But you may have a little sympathy soon as we 252 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:55,960 watch a punishment which is infinitely more infernal. 253 00:15:55,519 --> 00:15:58,799 Speaker 1: Than the crime. I'll be back shortly with that too. 254 00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:14,159 Speaker 2: To watch George Hartford drive that Mercedes that hugged the road, 255 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,399 floating as though on rails and cornering to perfection. To 256 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:22,240 watch his face and the fanaticism of the fattest suffusing 257 00:16:22,279 --> 00:16:26,519 it was to know our plastic man had an achilles heel, 258 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:32,600 one spot where he was vulnerable his passion for classic cars. 259 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,919 Speaker 1: And in Laura he had found an unlikely companion. 260 00:16:36,279 --> 00:16:38,240 Speaker 4: It looks as if I lost him just when I 261 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:38,720 found you. 262 00:16:39,519 --> 00:16:43,879 Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry, Bebe, But a car like this, I mean, 263 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,360 like man, this is far out. I know. 264 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 4: Why do you think I wanted? It took four years 265 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,679 of begging and other things to get it to. 266 00:16:55,679 --> 00:17:00,559 Speaker 1: Greatest feeling in the world. Right it was, or at 267 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:06,319 least a substitute till till there was us huh. 268 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 4: If I'm really included in come again, forget it. It's 269 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,240 our karma too late to offer you a way out. 270 00:17:18,279 --> 00:17:19,319 Speaker 1: He lost me somewhere. 271 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 4: I should probably never have found you. George, there could 272 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,559 be danger. You want to turn back. 273 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,559 Speaker 1: I don't make all this. You mean your husband? Yes, 274 00:17:31,079 --> 00:17:34,119 well what is he? I mean King Karna, the god force? 275 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:39,319 Speaker 4: Oh no, Horace is quite small and very mild and 276 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,559 very rich. I'm quite willing to admit the last is 277 00:17:42,559 --> 00:17:45,640 what attracted me to him. I didn't know then about 278 00:17:47,599 --> 00:17:51,400 about the other the other, what how deep his interest 279 00:17:51,440 --> 00:17:55,480 in psychical research was, or how powerful some of the 280 00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:56,799 forces involved are. 281 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: Mabe, you know something, Babe, you're talking kind of weird. 282 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,759 Speaker 4: Six years with Horras would make any woman a little 283 00:18:02,799 --> 00:18:08,440 off peak. I've been walking in a bad dream. You 284 00:18:08,519 --> 00:18:13,079 woke me up losing. Oh look, there's a motel Georgie 285 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:17,279 or whatever you call them in Old Mexico. It's too 286 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,880 much talking. That gets everybody into trouble. 287 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:31,319 Speaker 1: Now you're talking, Laura, but making sense. There was still 288 00:18:31,319 --> 00:18:35,279 early in the afternoon, but something wakened me suddenly. For 289 00:18:35,319 --> 00:18:37,759 a moment, I didn't where I was then as my 290 00:18:37,799 --> 00:18:41,160 eyes focused on the bright yellow ceilings of the casser Romantica. 291 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:44,119 I realized that the windows were coming from the girl 292 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:51,559 by my side. Oh, Laura, hey, hey baby, oh hey. 293 00:18:52,599 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 3: Oh George, don't say anything that just told me. 294 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:05,720 Speaker 1: Hold me a moment, suh. Okay, hey, hey, stay loose. 295 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:08,559 We didn't blow up the capitol or anything. I mean, 296 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:09,960 we're not on the wanted list. 297 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 3: He knows who Horace knows what about us? 298 00:19:16,839 --> 00:19:19,319 Speaker 1: And if you got a guilty conscience, No. 299 00:19:19,039 --> 00:19:23,839 Speaker 4: No, this isn't conscience. It's beyond it. Let me go, George, 300 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:24,559 Let me go. 301 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:25,799 Speaker 1: Where are you going? 302 00:19:26,559 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 3: I just have to get up to the window and 303 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:30,559 get some there. 304 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 1: Here. Why don't you wrap something around you? 305 00:19:36,960 --> 00:19:44,039 Speaker 4: Will that make me decent? All right? George? 306 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: What? 307 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,359 Speaker 4: You're a very selfish man. 308 00:19:50,279 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 3: I know this is just a casual affair for you 309 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:53,480 that you drifted into. 310 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 4: I suppose I shouldn't. 311 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:59,319 Speaker 3: Worry about you, but you asked for it. 312 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:07,279 Speaker 4: Let me say it once. I'm sorry, but it's way 313 00:20:07,319 --> 00:20:11,480 too late for either of us to back out. Now, 314 00:20:12,599 --> 00:20:14,240 let's get dressed and back to the club. 315 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 1: I'll say one thing for you, Laura. You do come 316 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,160 up with the surprises, but I must say this is 317 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,200 one bummer of a so long Dad. 318 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 3: Oh, you and I haven't finished, George, We've only begun. 319 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:30,920 Speaker 4: That's part of the karma too. 320 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:37,480 Speaker 1: I didn't like this whole gig. I was into something 321 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,960 I couldn't grab. Kind of a nowhere for me because 322 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:44,279 I'm the one who usually decides where it's at. Driving 323 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:46,920 to the bus stop too, I had this crazy notion 324 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,920 that maybe it was the Mercedes fifty six I'd missed 325 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:55,359 more than her. It was all mixed up, and coming 326 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,960 home to my cabin late in the evening, just at dark, 327 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:02,759 I got shook up. Some Laura, have. 328 00:21:02,759 --> 00:21:07,000 Speaker 7: A nice bus ride, mister Hartford, Who the hell are you? 329 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:10,759 Speaker 1: What are you doing in my cabin? I'm sorry? 330 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Speaker 7: I thought for me in a sense, it was kind 331 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:14,839 of a home away from home. 332 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,599 Speaker 1: How'd you get in here? I locked the door? How 333 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:25,559 could you lock it? Against Laura's husband? Laura? Uh? Oh, yeah, 334 00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:29,960 I met her on the beach. Hi, mister Prennis, interesting 335 00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:35,839 to meet you, mister Hartford. I guess Laura missus Prenis 336 00:21:35,839 --> 00:21:39,920 mentioned my name. Can I get you a drink? No? Thanks? 337 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,559 Speaker 7: Can I get you a cover up for your embarrassment? 338 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,200 What I think we can dispense with unnecessary questions. 339 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: I want you to leave my wife alone now just 340 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:53,720 a minute. 341 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 7: I know what's happened between you and Laura, who happens 342 00:21:56,759 --> 00:22:00,359 to be my wife. You didn't know what you were 343 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,839 getting into. I considered having you roughed up, but I'll 344 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:08,640 let that go. Excuse me, I must leave now. I'll 345 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,160 say goodbye for all of us. If you have a 346 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:14,799 brame in your head. 347 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 1: Mister Hartford, you'll echo that sentiment, just for curiosity's sake. 348 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,920 With a slight flapping under my heart. I checked the 349 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:32,799 following morning. The fix was gone, and the desk clerk 350 00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:37,599 informed me so were the apprentices. I breathed easier, lived 351 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,400 out my week without a pigeon worth making a pass at, 352 00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:44,000 and went back to my office in Los Angeles. It 353 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,640 was nice to get back to plain living. Hey you 354 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:50,079 look great, George. You picked up a lot of sun. 355 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,680 That's about all that was going there. Man, how about you? 356 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:57,759 You set the wedding day? Yep? Three weeks from the day. 357 00:22:57,799 --> 00:22:59,839 Can you make it? Hey? Can you see me? Not? 358 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 2: No, I'll get you turn down another opportunity to be 359 00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:04,880 best man? 360 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 1: Okay, work me over, I deserve it, I guess. 361 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 2: George, what's the matter? Don't tell me the leopard is 362 00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,359 changing his spots. You meet someone on your little cruise 363 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:18,720 casing Mexican talent. 364 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: I met someone not Mexican, just real offbeat. What do 365 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,640 you think of parapsychology? 366 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 3: Man? 367 00:23:28,799 --> 00:23:32,079 Speaker 2: Oh, brother, I mean in more ways than one. I 368 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,000 have enough trouble handling my own. 369 00:23:33,839 --> 00:23:36,519 Speaker 1: Specialty in the vagaries of the human brain. 370 00:23:36,799 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 7: Psyche you condition, however you define it, parapsychology, that's another 371 00:23:42,279 --> 00:23:42,960 breed of cat. 372 00:23:44,640 --> 00:23:51,839 Speaker 1: Cat Huh, nothing, but you didn't answer. Wow, I don't 373 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,000 know how to answer. It's it's a gray area. 374 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,240 Speaker 7: The research is too new, too limited to prove anything 375 00:23:57,279 --> 00:23:57,920 or mean much. 376 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:04,119 Speaker 1: Why uh, just an idle question. Don't try to kid me, George. 377 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:08,759 Nothing you ask is idle. Okay. I met a dame 378 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:10,440 who was hung up on this scene, and I just 379 00:24:10,519 --> 00:24:12,240 wondered how much there might be to it. 380 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 7: Well, you want my opinion, it's not too much. That's 381 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,480 in general, but specifically for you. 382 00:24:19,599 --> 00:24:23,559 Speaker 1: If you're asking my advice, give her a wide berth. 383 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,680 Speaker 2: Your life is mixed up enough as it is without 384 00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:31,839 voluntarily trying to complicate it any further. Okay, All right on, 385 00:24:32,559 --> 00:24:36,519 because no matter how much I object to your personal life. 386 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:40,440 If you're my brother means I I have a lot 387 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,240 to me To know you'll be standing next to me 388 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:43,079 when I get married. 389 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,279 Speaker 1: I'd have to be dead or nowhere before I missed that. 390 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,119 The day after I had lunch with my brother Matt, 391 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,079 she rolled into my dealer's lot, I should say they 392 00:24:57,039 --> 00:25:01,799 the Mercedes fifty six English grew with that unforgettable license 393 00:25:01,839 --> 00:25:07,519 plate and the equally unforgettable Laura behind the wheel. I 394 00:25:07,559 --> 00:25:12,359 had no escape. Our office building is all glass. As 395 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,000 the lesser of two evils, I went out to meet 396 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,880 her myself. Yes, madam, what can I do for you? 397 00:25:21,319 --> 00:25:24,440 Speaker 4: Of all people? How could you ask? 398 00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:27,839 Speaker 1: Are you crazy? Blowing in here? Doesn't your husband is. 399 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,759 Speaker 3: On the other side of the world in India. 400 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,079 Speaker 4: He's gone on retreat for a month. 401 00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:33,759 Speaker 1: Whatever that means. 402 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,319 Speaker 4: It means he's in transcendental meditation. 403 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,839 Speaker 3: You'd call it out of this world. It also means 404 00:25:40,079 --> 00:25:41,000 I am free. 405 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,319 Speaker 1: Look, Laura, I like to swing as much as the 406 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,720 next man. But baby, I think we ought to drop it. 407 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:54,279 That little guy scared me and you, yes, and me. 408 00:25:55,839 --> 00:26:00,920 You really got through. You got to me. I can't 409 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,720 comb you out, so climb in this time. 410 00:26:05,839 --> 00:26:08,640 Speaker 4: I'll be driving, and I'll show you I can handle 411 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,480 this baby, just as well as you can. 412 00:26:11,599 --> 00:26:13,920 Speaker 1: I can't just walk out of my business like that. 413 00:26:15,559 --> 00:26:17,839 I'll tell you what. I'll meet you in half an hour. 414 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:20,680 It's a Wiltshire and Beverly northwest corner. 415 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:22,599 Speaker 4: That's a date, don't you miss it. 416 00:26:26,519 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: It was a date, all right, a date with destiny, 417 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,680 though how could I have known it? Then I cleaned 418 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,599 up my desk, turned the agency over to my head salesman, 419 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,480 then drove out of the lot. I parked my heap 420 00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:41,480 short of Beverly and walked the rest of the way. 421 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,680 She was waiting for me. I climbed in and we 422 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:54,680 drove off of her house in bel air. God for 423 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:01,640 to stealing. Now you will move after shots. 424 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:03,960 Speaker 4: What you heard him too? 425 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 1: What are you talking about Haras? 426 00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:08,480 Speaker 4: My husband? He knows about us. 427 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,799 Speaker 1: You gotta be kidding. I mean, if he really is 428 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:13,599 in India. 429 00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:13,920 Speaker 3: Oh he's there. 430 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 4: It doesn't make any difference. 431 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,839 Speaker 1: Look, I don't dig any of this. It's too wide out. 432 00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:22,240 All I know is I'm getting out right now. I 433 00:27:22,279 --> 00:27:26,279 never should have climbed back in. We're committed now, No way, baby, 434 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:27,759 it's out of our hands. 435 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 4: Horace doesn't want me back. 436 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,599 Speaker 3: How do you know he's telling me right now? 437 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 1: From India? 438 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 4: I warned you you were getting into something beyond your understanding. 439 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: Okay, so great now I'm on my way out. 440 00:27:41,559 --> 00:27:45,279 Speaker 4: You can't. This just isn't a silly girl who's trying 441 00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:47,440 to hang on. I told you the moment I laid 442 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,920 eyes on you, I knew you were my karma. If 443 00:27:52,079 --> 00:27:57,160 what's this karma? Jive my fate and yours. You can try, 444 00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,640 but you'll never escape me. 445 00:28:00,839 --> 00:28:04,519 Speaker 1: Don't kid yourself. I know when I've had enough, I'm 446 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:10,599 blowing this scene and this is goodbye. I lit out 447 00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:13,359 of there like my tail was on fire. Matt had 448 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,400 warned me I'd get caught in a nutcrack on one 449 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,480 of these days, and this looked like one of them. 450 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:24,440 And man, it was weird. When I read about the 451 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:28,839 crash the next day, I felt like a real heel, 452 00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:31,200 but I heaved a sigh of relief just the same. 453 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,599 I didn't have any feeling of guilt, or did I? 454 00:28:36,799 --> 00:28:40,200 Why should I? If only I had known what she 455 00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:44,640 was thinking on that last ride, maybe how could I know? 456 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:56,319 Speaker 4: There's no going back, there's no going forward. Where do 457 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:56,799 I go? 458 00:28:57,079 --> 00:28:57,119 Speaker 3: For? 459 00:28:57,319 --> 00:29:08,559 Speaker 1: He Lord only one wing to do. You're writing over 460 00:29:09,079 --> 00:29:13,319 nion the car. 461 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,559 Speaker 5: Still be caring matters anymore? 462 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:40,640 Speaker 1: Now you gambled, now roused us. I read it in 463 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,640 the morning papers. Woman plunges to fiery death off Coldwater Canyon. 464 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,960 Both car and drive were completely destroyed by fire. Police 465 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,200 determined by one remaining license plate that the victim must 466 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,519 have been missus Laura Prentice. I felt kind of sick, 467 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:01,960 but relief. 468 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: That was the end of that, Only, as we shall discover, 469 00:30:12,839 --> 00:30:15,680 that was not the end of either car or driver. 470 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:17,119 Speaker 1: The world is. 471 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 2: Full of George Hartford's who get away with murder in 472 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,799 a general sense, But odds have a way of evening up, 473 00:30:24,319 --> 00:30:27,279 and this time George isn't going to get away with anything. 474 00:30:28,079 --> 00:30:42,640 I'll return shortly with Act three. This story is a snowball, 475 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:48,279 starting from microscopic beginnings, gathering momentum and mass as it 476 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,200 rushes down the hill, the tension and terror building from 477 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:57,559 nothing to a massive and inevitable crash, and like the snowball, 478 00:30:58,119 --> 00:31:01,079 being fractionalized into nothing again. 479 00:31:04,759 --> 00:31:06,519 Speaker 1: It was less than a week since Laura and the 480 00:31:06,599 --> 00:31:10,359 Mercedes fifty six had been burned to cinders. I was 481 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,400 crossing the canyon from my pad and van Nye taking 482 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,240 Matt over to meet his bride. What's the matter with 483 00:31:16,319 --> 00:31:20,440 you lately, George, Ah, don't worry about me. Let's concentrate 484 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:21,200 on the big date. 485 00:31:21,319 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 6: Huh. 486 00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 1: How many days to the wedding? Man? A little over 487 00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:26,039 a week? Can't wait? 488 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:29,279 Speaker 2: But that makes me kind of sad, little brother. I 489 00:31:29,319 --> 00:31:31,200 wish you could meet a girl you could settle down with. 490 00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: I'm off Dames for the moment. This girl, I hey, 491 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,960 what kind of crazy? It's the Mercedes and Laura at 492 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,319 the wheel. D it's the. 493 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 7: Matter with you? 494 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: You got your mind? I did go off the road, Matt. 495 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,240 That's crazy broad with a Ramdan' dust head on? Are 496 00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:57,000 you talking about the green Mercedes that came round the bend? 497 00:31:57,680 --> 00:31:58,359 Speaker 4: Didn't you see it? 498 00:31:59,119 --> 00:32:02,839 Speaker 1: Or her? On? What ben coming the other way headed 499 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:04,000 towards us? George? 500 00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:07,799 Speaker 2: We haven't passed any cars coming or going in the 501 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,759 last few minutes. 502 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 1: We just about rammed one going the opposite way less 503 00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:15,480 than a minute ago. A green Mercedes, yeah, fifty six, 504 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:17,720 a classic. Didn't you see it? 505 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:17,960 Speaker 6: No? 506 00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:20,079 Speaker 7: I didn't because it wasn't there. 507 00:32:25,359 --> 00:32:29,039 Speaker 1: I tell you, plain as day. It was broad daylight. 508 00:32:29,359 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 2: I saw it and her, I tell you a green 509 00:32:32,759 --> 00:32:35,319 Mercedes with a girl named Laura at the wheel. 510 00:32:35,559 --> 00:32:37,759 Speaker 1: Yes, the same girl and the. 511 00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 2: Same car you say you read about in the paper 512 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:40,920 a few days ago. 513 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 1: Who went up in flames. That must have been some coincidence, 514 00:32:44,759 --> 00:32:46,000 a mistake. I don't know. 515 00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:49,119 Speaker 2: We're gonna check it out, George. That you said the 516 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,640 police found a license. 517 00:32:50,319 --> 00:32:53,119 Speaker 1: Plate, Yes, but they didn't give the numbers in the paper. 518 00:32:53,319 --> 00:32:56,519 Speaker 7: But if it should be six nine ninety nine, you'd 519 00:32:56,559 --> 00:32:59,000 have to agree with me. There wasn't any car today 520 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,400 that you had to boy right. But I saw what 521 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:07,920 you saw could have been a hallucination. Now we better 522 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,359 pin it down right now. 523 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,319 Speaker 1: I could have told Matt what he'd find out. I 524 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,359 knew it even before he checked with the police. I 525 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,519 knew the plate number would be six, and I knew 526 00:33:23,559 --> 00:33:27,759 something else. It didn't matter what he found out. I 527 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,759 hadn't seen the last of the green Mercedes fifty six 528 00:33:31,039 --> 00:33:35,000 or the girl who drove it, dead or alive. I 529 00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:37,279 took a fast powder and went out to get loaded. 530 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,039 Speaker 4: The name's Jinny Jenny Brake. 531 00:33:47,039 --> 00:33:49,599 Speaker 1: Oh, George here, George Hartford. 532 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,200 Speaker 4: So now it wasn't if find you a drink? 533 00:33:54,279 --> 00:33:55,759 Speaker 1: Sure, what's your poison? 534 00:33:56,359 --> 00:33:59,039 Speaker 4: You laugh, I could use. 535 00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:04,519 Speaker 3: One, says neck, plain soda, anything soft, funny? 536 00:34:04,599 --> 00:34:09,760 Speaker 1: Huh No, except why would you? What are you wasting 537 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:10,760 your time on a guy like me? 538 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 2: For? 539 00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:11,400 Speaker 3: Oh? 540 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:12,159 Speaker 4: I know? 541 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,199 Speaker 6: I come here sometimes and either I'm too shy to 542 00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,239 say hello to anyone, or I don't like the guys 543 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:21,320 who try to turn me on. 544 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,360 Speaker 4: I'm lonely, That's why I come. 545 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 1: You really want that drink? 546 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,559 Speaker 4: No, I'm up to here already so much. 547 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,599 Speaker 1: How'd you like to drive me home, Jenny, and then 548 00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:37,400 I'll give you a car fare back to your path. 549 00:34:38,679 --> 00:34:40,599 Speaker 4: When do I leave from my place. 550 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 1: Right after you drop me at my door? I'm not 551 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:45,119 looking to make out tonight. 552 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,559 Speaker 6: That's a new line, could be the beginning of a 553 00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:49,760 beautiful friendship. 554 00:34:50,960 --> 00:35:00,199 Speaker 4: Come on, I'll take a chance. You don't se that 555 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:01,039 loaded to me. 556 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:07,639 Speaker 1: I'm not. I've got other problems. You got a habit, No, 557 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:11,440 nothing like that. I got a bigger monkey on my back. 558 00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,679 Speaker 4: You're kind of screwed up, George, and I'm sorry for you. 559 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,559 Speaker 3: I'd honestly like to help if I could. 560 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,239 Speaker 1: I don't think anyone can. I guess I went out 561 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:24,800 and bought my own private set. 562 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,039 Speaker 2: Look out, what is this case? 563 00:35:27,079 --> 00:35:31,079 Speaker 1: You see it that we're saying any string war. You 564 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:34,239 got to get out of the way. Didn't you see 565 00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:40,559 the car? It went right through us, as if we 566 00:35:40,679 --> 00:35:43,480 weren't there. What car there wasn't any car? 567 00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:48,039 Speaker 4: Boy? Are you on some trip? Boy? 568 00:35:48,159 --> 00:35:48,480 Speaker 3: George? 569 00:35:48,519 --> 00:35:49,400 Speaker 8: I had it with you. 570 00:35:50,199 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 3: There's a bus stop here. 571 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,519 Speaker 4: I can find my own way home. You don't need company. 572 00:35:55,119 --> 00:35:57,079 What you need is a head doctor. 573 00:36:01,039 --> 00:36:04,119 Speaker 1: I don't know how long I lay apart there. I'd 574 00:36:04,159 --> 00:36:08,239 closed my eyes, maybe I went to sleep, But all 575 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,840 of a sudden I realized that the Mercedes had driven 576 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,360 up alongside of me, and Laura was leaning towards me 577 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:15,840 to talk. 578 00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:20,440 Speaker 4: Come on, George, I've been looking for you. 579 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:26,039 Speaker 1: Let me go. No, I can't. 580 00:36:27,039 --> 00:36:29,880 Speaker 4: I'm not ready sooner or later? 581 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,719 Speaker 1: Why not? No, I'm waiting for you. 582 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,480 Speaker 4: How long do I have to wait? 583 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:40,760 Speaker 1: My car was still running. 584 00:36:41,119 --> 00:36:43,199 Speaker 9: I threw into first and cut out sharp in the 585 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,360 tastic the hood of my car, bumper all the way 586 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,519 to the windshield, cut through the Mercedes like it was 587 00:36:48,639 --> 00:36:51,679 drawn in mid air or just wasn't there at all. 588 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,760 Speaker 1: I don't remember how I got home or to bed. 589 00:36:57,039 --> 00:36:58,920 I only know that with the help of five or 590 00:36:59,079 --> 00:37:02,760 six black cows, I found myself able to face my 591 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,599 brother Matt the next morning. So you proved it to yourself. 592 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:11,960 The car, the woman was a hallucination. No, she was there. 593 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,280 I heard her speak twice. 594 00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,400 Speaker 2: Now, George, I checked out the license plate with a 595 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:18,840 friend at police headquarters. 596 00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,360 Speaker 7: There's no doubt that she crashed in that car. 597 00:37:21,599 --> 00:37:24,280 Speaker 1: And why do I keep seeing her and hearing her. 598 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:27,440 It's a fixation, guilt reflex. So get rid of it 599 00:37:27,519 --> 00:37:30,719 for me. Well, that's your job. And oh sir, that's 600 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:31,440 your job. 601 00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:35,639 Speaker 2: If you can't, I can't, well possibly, certainly not alone. 602 00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,360 Speaker 1: You gotta have help, George. That's what I'm asking you for. No, 603 00:37:39,639 --> 00:37:43,119 not me, my own brother Amy. That much of a 604 00:37:43,199 --> 00:37:45,079 hail to you is not the point. 605 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:47,679 Speaker 7: I just started my residency in psychiatry. 606 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:50,000 Speaker 1: You're way beyond me, George. Well, then give me a 607 00:37:50,119 --> 00:37:53,920 man to go to, some doctor who can handle me. 608 00:37:58,599 --> 00:38:02,679 She was always there, trailing me in the fifty six, 609 00:38:03,639 --> 00:38:07,760 not fifteen feet behind me. But that wasn't the worst part. 610 00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:11,679 Speaker 10: Through the car, I could see the line of traffic 611 00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,280 stretching behind her, with sometimes a car coming up behind 612 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:18,599 and cutting right through the spectral green vehicle that wasn't 613 00:38:18,679 --> 00:38:20,119 there for anyone but me. 614 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:24,360 Speaker 1: I made up my mind to have it out and 615 00:38:24,519 --> 00:38:26,079 headed for the house in bel Air. 616 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,760 Speaker 7: Come in, mister hartfriend, I've been expecting you. 617 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:44,239 Speaker 1: Thank you as I need to thank me. Oh well, anyway, 618 00:38:45,639 --> 00:38:48,440 Thank heaven you're here. I thought you might still be 619 00:38:48,519 --> 00:38:49,000 in India. 620 00:38:49,039 --> 00:38:53,559 Speaker 7: Oh no, I came back from my wife's death. But 621 00:38:55,079 --> 00:38:58,199 four I landed from the plane at the moment she 622 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:03,719 went over the cliff. You see, I knew she was going, 623 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,320 But but how could I sent her to her deaths? 624 00:39:10,599 --> 00:39:11,079 Speaker 1: You know she. 625 00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:17,480 Speaker 4: She's following me. I can't get rid of her or 626 00:39:17,639 --> 00:39:17,920 the car. 627 00:39:18,159 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: I know. And you came to ask me for help. Yes, 628 00:39:23,639 --> 00:39:29,000 I please, please help me. You must help yourself, George. 629 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:32,599 Speaker 2: You didn't hesitate to in the beginning, when it was 630 00:39:32,679 --> 00:39:34,400 something that didn't belong to you. 631 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,480 Speaker 1: Why hold back now? What do you mean you'll never 632 00:39:39,599 --> 00:39:43,880 be rid of her as long as you live. Why 633 00:39:44,039 --> 00:39:51,480 don't you join her? George, yessie, as she is, she's 634 00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:58,679 waiting for you. Sign. I was outside the house, the 635 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:02,039 door shut in my face, and parked in the driveway 636 00:40:02,119 --> 00:40:06,199 facing me was the green Mercedes. I went a little brasik, 637 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,360 hurling myself into my own car, ramming her into first 638 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,079 and driving in a scattering of gravel and dust, straight 639 00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:16,079 through that infernal vision. I smashed into sunset, turning left 640 00:40:16,119 --> 00:40:19,639 in a screech of tires, heading for Cold Water Canyon 641 00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:23,079 and back to the valley. But all the time my 642 00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:30,159 nemesis followed me, riding up my back, tailgating me. Then 643 00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,400 at the top of the hill, suddenly riding on air 644 00:40:34,079 --> 00:40:37,760 right out over the valley, the Mercedes drew abreast of me. 645 00:40:38,679 --> 00:40:40,280 Speaker 4: Why don't you shine. 646 00:40:42,039 --> 00:40:42,719 Speaker 5: Hi away? 647 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:52,000 Speaker 1: All right? 648 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,800 Speaker 3: Damn it, have it your way here I come. 649 00:41:08,159 --> 00:41:13,239 Speaker 1: I'm so sorry that your poor brother. 650 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 2: I'm so sorry for so many things, fram for what 651 00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:20,679 he was, for what he made of himself, for the 652 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,679 help I couldn't give him, but most of all for 653 00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,280 calling him a plastic man. 654 00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:31,599 Speaker 1: What do you mean, don turns out he wasn't. There 655 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,119 was a chink in his armor, whether he knew it 656 00:41:34,199 --> 00:41:37,000 or not, his conscience. 657 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:42,840 Speaker 4: You mean me for that woman's suicide, the one with 658 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:43,800 the Mercedes. 659 00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:49,199 Speaker 1: Yes, they hadn't even had time to repair the guardrail. 660 00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,239 He went right through the same gap she did. 661 00:41:55,800 --> 00:42:00,599 Speaker 2: Well, no sense agonizing about its sun is done. 662 00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:14,679 Speaker 1: At least she won't be haunting him anymore. I wonder. 663 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,880 Speaker 2: There's quite a legend grown up about that stretch of road. 664 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,800 On misty nights or dark ones, with the moon seen 665 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,760 fitfully through clouds, a lot of people swear they pass 666 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:32,119 a Mercedes colored English green. Some say the woman was driving, 667 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,360 some say the man. But then that would be easy 668 00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,360 to confuse, since by now the paint is peeling, the 669 00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:43,199 clothing is half rotted away, and the figures themselves are 670 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,079 little more than skin and bone. The hands that grasp 671 00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,800 the wheel those of a skeleton. 672 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:51,960 Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly. 673 00:43:03,039 --> 00:43:07,159 Speaker 2: One further note, Shortly after Fran and Matt were married, 674 00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:09,920 a large sum of money was given to them by 675 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,440 an anonymous source. And at the same time, Horace stripped 676 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:17,360 himself of all his possessions and gave the bulk of 677 00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,239 his fortune to the school for Psychic Research, where he 678 00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:21,280 had taught so long. 679 00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:25,000 Speaker 1: He left for India and was never heard of again. 680 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,559 Speaker 2: One story has it that he sits in meditation somewhere 681 00:43:29,679 --> 00:43:33,039 high in the Himalayas, treated by the nearby villagers as 682 00:43:33,079 --> 00:43:40,159 a holy man. Perhaps so, but is it meditation or expiation? 683 00:43:41,639 --> 00:43:46,519 We'll never know. Our cast included Don Scardino, Joan Loring, Russell, 684 00:43:46,559 --> 00:43:50,440 Horton and Catherine Byers. The entire production was under the 685 00:43:50,519 --> 00:43:57,760 direction of Hyman Brown. And now a preview of our 686 00:43:57,880 --> 00:43:58,639 next tale. 687 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:03,000 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Kaufman, I was sent in here to see you. 688 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:04,679 How can I help? 689 00:44:05,559 --> 00:44:08,280 Speaker 11: A man named Tom Beckmuth was murdered last night? 690 00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:09,159 Speaker 1: That's right? 691 00:44:10,039 --> 00:44:14,440 Speaker 11: Do you have any information that would yes? I I'm 692 00:44:14,519 --> 00:44:19,079 responsible for his death. What are you saying, mister Wilson, 693 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,400 Roger Wilson, I caused his death. 694 00:44:23,199 --> 00:44:25,360 Speaker 1: Are you confessing to the crime. 695 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,800 Speaker 8: I suppose that's the only way to put it. I 696 00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,800 I wished him dead. You wished him dead? Yes, Lieutenant, 697 00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,679 I wished him dead. I wished it with all my strengths. 698 00:44:41,199 --> 00:44:43,639 Speaker 2: He was killed by two shots from a thirty eight 699 00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:44,559 caliber pistol. 700 00:44:44,679 --> 00:44:50,280 Speaker 11: Now did you fire them? That's immaterial, mister Wilson. You 701 00:44:50,559 --> 00:44:51,480 don't look well at all. 702 00:44:51,679 --> 00:44:53,760 Speaker 1: Now I'll have an officer see you to your home. 703 00:44:54,039 --> 00:44:54,639 This is E. G. 704 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,360 Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for 705 00:44:58,519 --> 00:45:06,159 another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.