Speaker 1: Come in Welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall.
Speaker 2: We're about to embark on a dark journey, a journey
through the terrifying passages of a distorted mind. Man's mind
is filled with dark passages that lead through a labyrinth
of horror, from which, at times there is no return.
Come with me as we probe the darkness for ghostly images.
Speaker 1: Come to the House of Cain.
Speaker 2: Here we will search out the secret has kept the
old house shrouded in a mantle of fear. Who is Cain,
you ask? He appears to be an ordinary man like
most of us. But here at the old house, isolated
from the twentieth century, a strange turbulence swirls around him.
Speaker 1: Ken, Ken, where are you regular? I'm here. I told
you to stay in the house. Do not need him here?
Where have you been in the stout house? Horrible odor?
Speaker 3: In the dungeon, one of the prisoners went mad, said
fire to Asell let me and I dragged him out.
Speaker 1: We had to calm the others.
Speaker 4: Kiddy, I don't want to know what you do with them.
Speaker 1: Please, I don't want to know what you do.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama Them was written especially for the mystery
theater by Alph Goodman and stars Alan Hewitt and Jordan Charney.
Our story begins in a small crowded courtroom. The jury
is filing in. They have reached a decision on the
charge of manslaughter. The defendant, Charles Schiller, darts a quick
apprehensive look at his frail wife Karen, who has stood
steadfastly by him during his ordeal. He then stands to
face the twelve men and women who have been chosen
to decide his fate. The murder, if it is to
be called, that was accidental. Charles Schiller testified to this
the evidence seemed conclusive. Let's move in a little closer.
The foreman of the jury has just risen. Ladies and
gentlemen of the jury. Have you reached a verdict? We have, sir,
How say you? Do you find the defendant guilty or
not guilty?
Speaker 1: Not guilty? Come Magatha. Once again mockery has been made
of justice. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 3: As with the others, I find this man guilty if.
Speaker 4: A jury found him anything.
Speaker 2: I am not influenced by emotion, as are these incompetence
chosen to serve on juries. Remember, Agatha, I have been
both lawyer and judge who is better qualified to decide
a man's guilty.
Speaker 1: Instance. Come, we must.
Speaker 3: Inform Ludvig that man must pay for his crime, as
did the others. I said, Come, Agatha, we have listened
to every bit of evidence presented in this trial. A
murder has been committed. I have found the defendant guilty
on all counts. It is up to us to see
to it that justice will be served.
Speaker 4: All right, you two, this is last breakfast is served.
We're coming mom. Dad's giving me a piggy right on
his back.
Speaker 1: Oh, or like a right around the road. Easy.
Speaker 5: Oh, let's be careful with daddy now that he's back
from that awful courtroom home with us again.
Speaker 6: Well, now you two sit down.
Speaker 5: We've got toast and boiled eggs and boiled eggs.
Speaker 4: Oh, we'll just take a piece of toast in any ways,
I'm not hungry, okay, all.
Speaker 2: Right, then take a piece of toast. Maybe you better
take two, Okay, Dad.
Speaker 4: I got to run anyway. I'm supposed to meet the
guys at the school yard. Don't just perfect for eat.
Speaker 6: You're running.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's so good to have you home, and I
have that nightmare behind us.
Speaker 2: Let's not think about that or talk about it again.
All I'm interested in now is is having that phone
taken out so I can spend up quiet Saturday with
my wife. Hello. No, no, no you didn't. Yes, yes,
I'd like very much to be included. Twelve fifteen front.
Where is it to be held? Oh no, no, no, no,
that's not necessary. I have my own car.
Speaker 1: I can just.
Speaker 2: Well, all right if you want to, I'll be ready
at noon.
Speaker 1: Yes, goodbye? Who was that? Well?
Speaker 2: I don't know, really, I neglected to ask. A friend
of Warren's, another lawyer. Some of his associates are giving
Warren a surprise luncheon today to celebrate his winning my case.
Speaker 1: I wish I had thought of it.
Speaker 4: Well, you did call him to thank him dear twice
last night.
Speaker 1: Oh I know, I know. But a luncheon. What a
wonderful idea.
Speaker 6: And they've asked you to come.
Speaker 4: It's almost the same as if you'd thought of it.
Speaker 2: Not quite, but I'm glad someone did. It must be
a really fancy party. They're sending a limousine for me.
Speaker 5: Ooh, how posh?
Speaker 2: Look, I know we planned day together, darling, but well,
after all the work Warren did for me I'd like
very much to go, darling.
Speaker 4: Of course you have to go. Where's it to be?
Speaker 2: And the man didn't say, actually, it doesn't matter. They're
sending the car. I'll let the driver worry. I'd better
shave thought you just did. True, but I've never been
picked up by a limousine before.
Speaker 5: Oh, oh, it's good to have you home again.
Speaker 1: I got that.
Speaker 2: It's almost twelve, yes, Kine, Oh, please stop pacing.
Speaker 4: They'll be here. Ludwig has always brought them. He has
never failed you.
Speaker 3: There transcripts the murder trials we've judged thus far.
Speaker 1: Where are the transcripts.
Speaker 4: Here, Kane on the desk. There is no need to
show the poor man the transcripts. Ludwig will bring him
in as he has the others. I know you have
told me over and over what we do is right.
Speaker 3: But in my heart and mental clap trap, that's what
got him off for the trial. One does not judge
a case with a heart, but with a mind. Here,
look at these transcripts.
Speaker 2: I've gone over them word by word, and in each
case the jury has been wrong.
Speaker 3: I have been right a limousine. You are right in
one thing, Agatha. Ludwig does what he has to do
and does it well. Yes, yes, he's brought us our
honored guest.
Speaker 1: Let them in. I will join you presently.
Speaker 4: I have worked, yes, Jane, one moment, Ludwig, I am
coming a good afternoon, young. I am sorry to have
kept you reading. Take his heart, Ludwig, and if you
will please follow me, sir, you're a study.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your hospitality. My name is Charles, Charles Schiller.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I know. Now if you were come this way,
the whole are rather dark and dreary.
Speaker 2: What is this place? I mean your chauffeur was not
very talkative. I still don't know the gentleman's name who
sent the car for me.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's mister Kane. This is his estate, Cain Cain.
I see is he a lawyer? He is a judge.
Speaker 2: Oh, mister Shiller, I see you've arrived safely.
Speaker 1: Allow me to welcome you. I'm Matthew Kine. Or how
do you do? I must admit when a luncheon was mentioned, now, well,
I was.
Speaker 2: Expecting to be taken to a small restaurant or a
banquet room. Old, no, no, no, this is too important
a moment to be held in mundane surroundings. You've met
my sister, miss Agatha Kane.
Speaker 1: Well no, no, not not formally. How do you do man?
If you're both ex as I've told.
Speaker 2: You, Agatha, this is mister Schiller. He's got to visit
with us and have a bite of lunch. Would you
do the honors? My dear Ludwig will help, but give
mister Shiller and me a chance to get acquainted first.
Speaker 4: Yes, a king, I will go, and Figler to me.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, she's a little adult. I'm afraid I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Well, since you're the first to arrive, may I suggest
a little brandy to warm you from the dampness of
the weather.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, yes, yes, that'll be fine.
Speaker 2: I took the liberty of pouring as you arrived. Your
drink is here on the side table. Oh, I see
you're admiring that magnificent old portrait over the mantle. My grandfather, Sir,
a man who gloried in.
Speaker 3: Our judicial system, spent his life exacting justice, a godly
man who believed in the holy words. And I for
an eye, he.
Speaker 2: Has a magnificent Yes, he's been dead for over fifty
years now, but his presence is still felt in this house.
Speaker 1: Will here's to you, sir. Thank you.
Speaker 3: Sit down, mister Shulman. The others will be here shortly.
Sit down and tell me about your day in court.
You had an able lawyer.
Speaker 2: Now, one of the best. I can't speak highly enough
of Warren Douglas.
Speaker 3: Clever, yes, very clever, but then criminal lawyers must be
exceptionally clever. Most of the time they're paid to defend
the guilty. But I've meant no inference in your case
is just a generalization.
Speaker 2: That's all right, I'm not sensitive. I was exonerating. Yes, yes,
I heard. It was a murder case. Resid them accidental manster. Oh, yes, yes, yes,
forgive me. I'm sorry to say I don't follow all
the cases I should. So this was something about a
fight in a bar room mus the Corton Larned. I
was waiting for my wife. We were to have lunch
that afternoon. There was this man, a complete stranger. He
was annoying a woman at the bar. I intervened. One
word led to another. I hardly remember the struggle that followed,
but somehow he fell over backwards against a glass door
and shattered it. One of the glass livers pierced his throat.
He died almost instantly. Oh, how dreadful. Yes, yes, it
was one minute sitting quietly worrying about how much my
wife spent on a shopping spree, and well, the next we.
Speaker 1: Are at the mercy of circumstances? Are We're not?
Speaker 2: Mister Schiller, Oh, let me fill your glass again.
Speaker 1: I was just wondering about the others. And it's getting
rather late.
Speaker 2: The judicial system and its failings have become quite a
passion with me. Several years ago, my sister and I
had occasion to attend a criminal courts trial. I'll never forget.
Speaker 3: The sight of the man's face as he stood to
receive the jury's verdict. He stood there, quivering with fear,
awaiting the foreman's voice to pronounce him guilty. And suddenly,
but I suppose the strain was too much for him.
The poor fellow pitched forward on his face, fell dead
where he stood dead. Good lord, yes, imagine that.
Speaker 2: And what do you suppose the jury's verdict was not
guilty the man lying dead at their feet there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, reattributive justice has a strange way of finding its mark.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I'd hardly call it justice. If they found the
man innocent, as you said, I found him guilty. He
was dead at any rate you found him guilty.
Speaker 3: Yes, mister Schuller, we all judge our fellow man. You
pick up a newspaper, read of a trial, decide a
man's guilty or innocence over you morning coffee or toast.
Don't deny it?
Speaker 1: Oh? Well, well, to some extent, I suppose we do.
Speaker 2: To some extent, did you hear that, Agatha, Well, now
there is some reasonableness to you, certainly if you can
admit that now, then let me ask.
Speaker 1: You this, mister Shilla.
Speaker 3: Do you think, with all the legions of lawyers, clever
lawyers with silver tongues, that certain inequities of justice are
sometimes meeted out by juries? Do some innocent men hang unquestionably?
Speaker 2: Sen then you would also admit that some of the
guilty go free?
Speaker 1: Is that not so? Mister s I don't, I don't,
I don't do well my head. I was hoping the
others would be here. Byn.
Speaker 2: Do you think we should give mister Douglas a call?
Perhaps there's been a misunderstanding. There's been nomes under standing,
mister Siller. Mister Douglas was never notified. There's no one
else coming. Then the misunderstanding was mine. I thought you
said there was to be a surprise luncheon for mister
Douglas to celebrate.
Speaker 1: But uh, did you put something in my drink? Yes,
mister Schiller. Why I don't understand. Why did you do it?
Mister Kane, please please, I can.
Speaker 3: Sleep well, mister Schiller. Ludwig and I will attend to everything. Ludway,
Ludley come, we have work to do. Then Dan, here
I go.
Speaker 4: I'm here, mister Siller, Where is mister Sheiller?
Speaker 1: Justice has been served, It is finished.
Speaker 4: Oh your quote, your new quote? What have you stained
it with?
Speaker 1: I think it's blood. I was attempting.
Speaker 4: Don't tell me. I don't want to know what you
do with them. Please, game, I don't want to know.
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2: Well, there is no doubt that justice in the minds
of men can take many forms. Who is to say
what is true justice? The charge against the defendant was manslaugh. Well,
I guess each man has his own rationalization.
Speaker 1: For justice as he sees it.
Speaker 2: But just as no man may place himself above the law,
so no man may appoint himself the oracle of judgment
and truth. It seems, however, that Matthew Caine has done so.
I'll return shortly with that. Two forty eight hours have
passed since the disappearance of Charles Schiller. His wife Karen
has been summoned to headquarters to discuss the incident with
the police. The request is rather unusual, considering that over
three thousand cases of missing persons are reported in an
average sized metropolitan city each month. Police files bulged with
triplicates of these reports. But the case of Charles Schiller
has caught the eye of detective Sergeant Steiner. Something about
this case has activated the trail dog instinct. Steiner is
sure he is armed to something.
Speaker 4: I appreciate your checking into this, Sergeant.
Speaker 2: Of course, I don't want to raise your hopes to hi,
missus Shiller. I mean around here, lots of times one
on one comes out three.
Speaker 4: Yes, I understand, sergeant. How can I help well?
Speaker 3: As I understand it? According to our records, mister Schiller's
lawyer was never informed of any testimonial luncheon in his
honor or any meeting that day of any kind.
Speaker 5: I spoke to one mister Douglas and he knew nothing
about it. But I'm sure he told you that too, Yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, he did. I have his statement right here.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry to put you through all this again, Missus Shulder,
but you see, after your husband's disappearance, the facts related
to it were run through our computer or statistical department.
On a hunch of mine, came through with something rather interesting,
something I'd like to pursue.
Speaker 1: With you, if I may, certainly.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 3: Well, Missus Shiller, it seems that the circumstances that surround
your husband's disappearance have been repeated three other times, all
within the last seven months.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I don't find I'm trying.
Speaker 3: To say is three men, three other men have vanished
over the past seven months. And the one thing these
three men had in common was they disappeared immediately after
having stood trial for murder.
Speaker 6: Well, what does that have to do with it?
Speaker 1: Just a moment more of a coincidence.
Speaker 3: Yet each of these men was found not guilty at
his trial. Look here David Swan charge of first degree
murder seven months ago October, not guilty. Man named Bates
manslaughter not guilty, Collins manslaughter not guilty.
Speaker 1: You see the pattern.
Speaker 3: Trial exoneration, disappearance, unusual, isn't it?
Speaker 5: And you think that my husband's disappearance has has something
to do with these other men.
Speaker 2: For now, let's just say he fits the pattern. You know,
I've looked all through his file, this file here, dozens
of times. Now there's just one little piece missing. Did
someone anyone see the man who picked your husband up
that day on the limousine?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: I told a man who took the report. I was
out shopping.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes, here it is, and Jimmy was out. Jimmy,
it's my son.
Speaker 6: He's eight.
Speaker 4: He was at the schoolyard playing with his friends.
Speaker 6: Didn't I mention that?
Speaker 3: No? No, there's no mention here of your son. Oh,
this boy of yours Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Could he have come home while you were up?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 4: I suppose I never thought to ask. We have a
tree house in the backyard. He and his friends often
play this.
Speaker 1: This treehouse. Does it face the street.
Speaker 6: You mean the front driveway? Yes?
Speaker 3: But missus Schiller, where's your son now?
Speaker 6: School?
Speaker 4: He'll be home at three. Do you think there's something
that Jimmy might know?
Speaker 1: That possible? Possible? Missus Shiller.
Speaker 2: You know, all we need is one lead, Mister Siller,
wake up, mister Shiller. It's time to rise and shine.
Speaker 3: Caine exactly, mister Shiller. Okay, Matthew Kaine, where am I?
Speaker 1: What is this place?
Speaker 2: Your room is high above the ground, on the far
side of the estate room. It is in a room.
It's a cage, so it is, mister Siller. What is
this bark window, steel door? It's like a prison cell.
It is a prison cell. Mister Shiller.
Speaker 1: Why why am I here?
Speaker 3: Who serve your sentence? I've judged your case and found
you guilty. No, so very well and good to say. No,
But here you are, aren't you?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 2: They all are, and here they'll stay until their brain's
rot and their bodies decay. They you mean there are others, Yes,
mister Schiller, there are others, others who have broken God's
law and must pay for it. Here, mister Schiller, here
are your rations for the day.
Speaker 1: You can't keep me here, Kane. My wife will go
to the police. She's probably notified them already. Who I'm
sure she has.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the others have wives and loved ones who
have reported these unfortunate incidents to the police. You have disappeared, sir,
vanished into thin air.
Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. Not in this day and age.
They'll find me. They have ways. Give it a year.
Speaker 3: Collins thought that way once, so did Swan and the others.
Speaker 1: Give it time. We'll see. And now, if.
Speaker 2: You'll excuse me, I must take these trays down the corridor.
Speaker 3: It's getting rather late. I'm doing court in an hour.
There's an interesting case I must keep up with. When
one has given the responsibility to judge his fellow man,
one must be thorough in order to be fair.
Speaker 1: Kine, come back, Kine. Someone will come.
Speaker 2: They'll find me, they'll find me. Well, I'm glad you
can bring Jimmy to see me.
Speaker 5: Missus Shiller when he said that he was in the
tree house and saw is Daddy leaving a big black
car could.
Speaker 1: Be the lead we've been looking for.
Speaker 2: Now, are you comfortable in that chair, Jimmy, Yes, sir,
huh good.
Speaker 1: Now you keep looking through this picture book.
Speaker 5: I don't understand how a children's book of cartoons or types.
Speaker 3: Missus Schiller tall, thin, wiry, heavy, muscular, and the clothes
they wear all geared to pinpoint a suspect. Now, Jimmy,
do you see anyone in there who looks like the
man you saw from the treehouse.
Speaker 4: Not exactly that. He looks something like this one, only
he's wearing kind of a uniform, like a soldier.
Speaker 1: Tall, thin and uniform.
Speaker 2: Now, let's seem uniforms.
Speaker 1: Uniforms.
Speaker 3: Huh, here we are, how, Jimmy, was he a soldier
like this one?
Speaker 1: No? Or ruh?
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, how about this one?
Speaker 4: That's it? That's it.
Speaker 1: And he had a hat on like this one.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, that's the one. But it wasn't black, it
was gray like.
Speaker 3: Robby's care Now anything else you noticed about him, Jimmy, No, sir,
Missus Shiller, we've got ourselves a suspend.
Speaker 4: Does that mean you can find my daddy?
Speaker 1: It means we have a better chance.
Speaker 3: At least we know one of the men were looking
for as a chauffeur, and we have some idea of
what he looks like.
Speaker 1: Now excuse me, Missus Shiller Driguez. I want a.
Speaker 2: Composite made up of the Shuller case. Get the artist
in here. Oh and I'll need two men from homicide.
We're going to stake out that courthouse about a careful
surveillance on limousines that pull up. I'll be going along
I'm bringing Schiller's wife and boy with me. Oh, he
will will allow Jimmy to come along, won't you.
Speaker 1: We'll see that he's kept.
Speaker 6: Out of danger, of course, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4: Oh, I don't mind danger if I can help find
my daddy.
Speaker 7: Oh, Jimmy, Good morning, Agathon, good morning.
Speaker 4: There was hammering and pounding near my room this morning.
Speaker 2: Kane, cause we're building a new cell, a new Sir.
There's another court case today, murder one.
Speaker 4: I don't want to hear about it.
Speaker 3: You can't shut out the world, Agatha. And please get
that dog of yours off the chair. I've told him
over and over.
Speaker 1: Don't get him.
Speaker 4: Can you hurt him when you pick him up? He's
so tiny.
Speaker 2: I hate small things, small minds, small people.
Speaker 1: Take him out and come right back.
Speaker 3: We'll be leaving for the courthouse as soon as Lodwig
brings the limousine out front.
Speaker 4: Oh, I can't go today. There's a flower show at
the City Guarditorium. Missus Eustace is picking me up this afternoon.
Speaker 1: You've asked her to come here.
Speaker 4: Oh, I won't invite her in. I'll be ready when
she arrives. Oh, Kane, when is all this going to stop?
Speaker 2: You loved grandfather, Agatha.
Speaker 3: You know what he stood for. You know how I've
worked and planned and dedicated.
Speaker 1: My life won't stop.
Speaker 2: We'll never stop as long as there's breath left in me.
Why do you do this to me? I don't like
losing my temper, You know I don't.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 3: BIG's ready, since you are going to be home. Feed
the prisoners.
Speaker 4: Prisoners, I don't know where they are.
Speaker 1: You know where they are, Agatha.
Speaker 3: I've seen you sneaking around, watching Ludwig and megle up
the narrow stone steps of the gatehouse.
Speaker 1: Kee, I don't know where you You don't need keys.
Speaker 3: You'll find the trays in the kitchen. Fill them, slide
one under each cell. I'll expect it to be done
when I return. Yes, Kane, I'm a sthurry off to
the courthouse.
Speaker 2: When a man's life is at stake, one must be fair.
Speaker 1: That's the courthouse to me. Over there across the.
Speaker 4: Street, a big place, and there's so many people who.
Speaker 6: Are just looking for one.
Speaker 4: Jimmie the chauffeur, the man who took your dad of
your way. Do you think you can recognize him from here?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Try, mom, God, Jimmy, we'll just sit here in the car.
And wait, this is a special murder trial. I think
our suspect will be here. Now you understand, missus Sheller,
I'm I'm not making any predicts.
Speaker 6: We understand, sergeant, the.
Speaker 1: Way things have been going, this may be our only chance.
Mister mister Yes, and who is that?
Speaker 4: I've brought you some food, mister Sheller.
Speaker 1: Miss Agatho, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: He left the house. He asked me to feed the prisoners.
I'll just slipped your trait under the center. Can you
reach it?
Speaker 1: Yes? But good?
Speaker 4: Then I'll just move on.
Speaker 2: And no no, no, no, wait, wait, I must talk.
Speaker 4: I can't. I have the others to feed. I left
my little dog downstairs. I told him stay, but he
never listens.
Speaker 1: The Oh he's so naughty, chin chin.
Speaker 4: I told you not to follow me up here. Keane
would be so angry if he knew. Oh dear, he's
crawled under yourself, your mister shell, he's going after your food.
Do grab him quickly, mister Shiller, please, that's it, thank you.
I'll take him now.
Speaker 1: Oh no, oh no, you can't do that. My second. Now,
we're both prisoners here, your dog and I both prisoners.
Until you get the keys.
Speaker 4: Oh, mister, there's no need to do that.
Speaker 1: Easy.
Speaker 4: If you can just pass chinchin through the vibe, he's
all fluffed, he'll pass through easily. Oh, mister Shill, you're
hurting him me. I have my little dog.
Speaker 2: Please, yes, yes, miss Ager, thank you. As soon as
you get the keys.
Speaker 4: Well, I can't do that.
Speaker 1: You prisoner and your dog is my prisoner.
Speaker 4: Oh, please give me my dog. He never did anything
to you.
Speaker 1: That's unfortunate. But look around you.
Speaker 2: Look what your brother did to me and the others
locked us in these stinking cells to satisfy his insanity.
Speaker 4: Mister Siller, you must understand my brother is not insane.
The reason he does what he does.
Speaker 1: There's no time for that. Now, either you get those
keys or i'll smack this little dog's now. No, you
you wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2: I'll show him this instance unless you do as I said.
Speaker 4: I don't know anything about the keys. Please give me the.
Speaker 1: Keys, miss Agatha. I'm running out of patience. Get the keys. Yes.
Speaker 2: The mind of man is a fragile thing. There is
little doubt that Charles Schiller has reached the breaking point.
It has been said that desperate men are capable of
desperate deeds. Will the frightened Miss Agatha find the courage
to release her brother's prisoner in exchange for the life
of her dog. I'll return shortly with Acts three. An
hour has gone by since the arrival of the police
stakeout at the courthouse entrance. Sergeant Steiner has been in
constant touch with the unmarked cars he has strategically placed
around the building. Sitting with him or Karen and Jimmy,
who has been keeping a close watch on various limousines
that have come and gone So far nothing. Steiner's face
is grim. He has little hope to hold out to
the anxious wife and child whose world has been darkened
by the strange disappearance of Charles Schiller.
Speaker 3: I've just checked with the units two and four. They've
got the rear entrance under surveillance. Now sign of a Limosino.
Speaker 1: Chauffeur back there. Well, we're doing what we can, but.
Speaker 6: I understand, Sergeant.
Speaker 1: Our real hope is Jimmy here. He saw the man before.
Speaker 3: He's the only one who can make a positive identification. Well,
anything new, Jimmy.
Speaker 4: He did see someone a little while ago that he
thought could be the man. One of the chauffeurs waiting
there across the street. Yes, you are busy jogging in
the radio.
Speaker 1: Well you should have cut in. Where which one he's gone?
Speaker 4: Now? No, wait, there he is over there if that
big black car. He's helping that big fat man get
into the back seat.
Speaker 2: Are you sure that's the man you saw from the treehouse?
Speaker 4: Well it wasn't before, but but I am.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: Do you see how he bends over, kind of stiff
when he opens the door.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 4: Well that's how the man bent over when he helped
get into the car at the house.
Speaker 1: Well that's good enough for me.
Speaker 6: The car is starting up.
Speaker 4: They're gonna lean the herum and can du.
Speaker 2: No, no, Jimmy, we're not going to capture him.
Speaker 1: We're not.
Speaker 3: We're going to follow him. He's the only link we
have to your dad. Control one to all stakeout units.
Limousine license number g NC nine one eight pulling away
from curb in front of courthouse, suspected.
Speaker 1: Wheel heading east on third Taylor. He's turning, sir, heading.
Speaker 2: For your grid Unit four pick up as he passes
Units two and five follow on parallel course.
Speaker 1: Mother ten for miss Agatha.
Speaker 2: Miss Agatha I'm here, mister Shiper.
Speaker 4: I'm looking for the key.
Speaker 1: Well keep looking, you will, you shut up. I'm not
going to hurt you. I just want to get out
of this madhouse. Miss Agatha.
Speaker 4: Oh wait, wait here, I found them. See I found
the keys. They were back there in this small storage room.
You can have them, all of them. Will just give
me my dog.
Speaker 1: Not so fast, Try them in the lock first, all right.
Speaker 4: All right, but please be careful. Ginchin is so delicate.
Speaker 1: The lock, Miss Agatha.
Speaker 4: I'm trying, mister Schiller, but there are so many. They're
all rusty, and most of them are two big.
Speaker 1: Try try that one. There's no rust on it at all.
Speaker 4: Hurry now you're sure it's right for me to do this.
My brother will be back any minute.
Speaker 1: Damn your brother.
Speaker 2: Do you want a dog handed to you in one
piece or don't you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 4: Yes, no, Please don't hurt him. I'll do just as
you say. There you're free, mister Schilla.
Speaker 1: Thank the Lord.
Speaker 4: Now release my dog here.
Speaker 1: Take him, yeful, don't drop him.
Speaker 4: Mister Oh now, look what you've done. He's getting away
chingin you come back here this instance.
Speaker 1: There's very get about him. I've got to get out
of here? Which way do I go?
Speaker 4: Hear chingin, good little Gingy.
Speaker 1: Miss Agatha. Way, It can't.
Speaker 4: I'd better find poor Gingin right away. Oh, it's so
easy to get lost in this endless mass of damn.
Speaker 1: You, miss Agatha, come back, come back.
Speaker 4: I don't see the limousine anymore with Tiam, I.
Speaker 6: Don't think we lost them.
Speaker 2: No, Missus Schilda, they're up ahead, Unit Force keeping him
in sight. A Control to Unit four. Control to Unit four,
I've got it. Suspect turning off onto the old Belmont Road,
heading for private driveway. All units. All units converge on driveway.
Speaker 1: Do not use sirens. We'll wait for you there, ten Ford.
Speaker 6: Why are we stopping?
Speaker 1: I want to get too close so I love them.
Speaker 4: They just turned into the driveway. Can't we fall?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid not.
Speaker 3: Jimmy, The driveway and that old estate back there is
private property.
Speaker 4: Private property. But my husband may be there.
Speaker 1: We can't go any farther without a warrant. What's that permission,
Jimmy to search the place? The other car should be
along any minute.
Speaker 2: You flag them down, Son, I'll take care of the
red tapetrol.
Speaker 1: One to Central Control, one to Central.
Speaker 2: Trust the search one private residence eleven forty three eleven
forty three Belmont Road, residence name unknown, try through vehicle
registration license number g NC nine one eight repeat g
m C nine one eight. I guess I will you
please stop bubbling like a child and tell me what's happened.
Speaker 4: It was just a few minutes ago. Game, I'm sure
you and Ludwig can find him and bring him back.
Speaker 1: Find who, bring who back?
Speaker 4: Mister Schilla Silla. Well, he forced me to let him
out of his cell.
Speaker 1: He won.
Speaker 4: Well, you see, he had changing. He said he would
break the poor little dog's nake if I didn't get
the keys.
Speaker 1: Who gave him the key?
Speaker 4: Well, I opened his door, then left him in the lock.
I had to go after.
Speaker 1: Change quickly the cells. I'll get the rifle, you fool
whatever you.
Speaker 4: King, I know, I should know.
Speaker 1: Me take the shotgun shells.
Speaker 4: No, King, put away the gun.
Speaker 2: This obedience must be met with force. Justice, Agatha, justice, Justice.
Speaker 4: I have seen your prison cells, King, those poor unfortunate
men living like caged animals. You call that justiness.
Speaker 1: Get out of my way. Those men must not escape
till light Kane Shller. I've already released.
Speaker 3: Them do you realize what you've done? Those men are
half crazed. I suggest we all stay here. It's a
lot safer than out there.
Speaker 4: I've warned you, brother, stop before it is too late.
Speaker 1: I must stop them. I must here, stop all of you.
You're breaking the law. I'll not stand for a breach
of justice.
Speaker 5: Those noises we heard, Sergeant, I'm sure they're coming from
the house.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a missus, mister shut that list. This couple
up a head, but it sounds like it's moving this way.
No need to wait for that morn. Now all right,
how up? Man?
Speaker 2: That gunfire is coming from the left. Rodriguez Gordon cover
on me.
Speaker 1: I'm going in.
Speaker 2: Mister Shiller, you better wait back here with Jimmy and
keep down.
Speaker 1: All the rain we will, Sergeant, this way, it's keep running.
I can see the road from here.
Speaker 4: I'm trying, mister Schiller. I don't know what got into
my brother. He's never been a viter.
Speaker 1: He's still off there, someway coming wildly in here. Who's
will you think?
Speaker 4: He killed them?
Speaker 1: So time to think about anything. Now, just just keep running.
Speaker 4: I can't I just go on any further.
Speaker 2: It's all right, miss Look, look up ahead, uniformed men.
Speaker 1: It's the police order wireman. Someone up my head. It
looks like, yeah it is. It's Charles Sheller, saying, God
you found. We couldn't have gone much further. You are
Charles Shiller. Oh yes, yes, yes. And this is miss
Agatha Caine.
Speaker 2: Her brother Matthew is back there armed with a shotgun.
Speaker 1: You know you better come with me. You'll both be
safer back there on the road. Get away from that
man Caine. He's an escape prisoner. I'll shoot the first man.
O touches a careful he's deranged. He's been holding chained
men captive of the house. But down that shotgun, mister Caine.
I am in charge here, tell you Amanda back off.
I am warning you, sir, for the last time. Sheller
hands on your head. We're returning to the south.
Speaker 2: It's no use, it's all over. If you pull that trigger,
you'll be murdering an innocent man. I was innocent, Kine,
they were all innocent.
Speaker 1: That's a lie.
Speaker 2: I judged you all fairly. I see now I was
too lenient with my sentence. Now that you dared defy me,
I changed my verdict. Your sentence is no longer life.
Speaker 1: It's death. Shut it, look out?
Speaker 6: Who gain.
Speaker 1: Gain?
Speaker 4: Hum?
Speaker 1: My poor brother, you've shot him? Sorry, ma'am, I had
no choice.
Speaker 4: Yes, King, I'm here.
Speaker 1: I was only trying.
Speaker 4: I know, King, I tried to warn you to stop
before it.
Speaker 1: Was too late.
Speaker 3: You're too easy on them, too quick to forgive the
people a jurors.
Speaker 1: They're all like you. Someone has to a rightness of things.
Speaker 4: He's he's gone, Kine.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, he put me through hell started.
Speaker 2: But you know something, I can't help feeling what he
did was partly our fault, our fault death. Crazy as
it may sound, there is some logic to his madness. Well,
Matthew Caine is no longer with us. I for one,
am saddened by his untimely death. I was beginning to
like him. I always did admire a man who is
dedicated to his work. And talking about a man who
is dedicated to his work, listen, we hope we didn't
frighten you with our story tonight. It's true Matthew Kine
was a psychopath, and he did have quite a successful
prison franchise operating on his dark and dismal estate. But
fortunately Sergeant Steiner arrived on the scene in time to
stop him from opening branch offices all over the country. So,
dear listeners, you all will be safe in your beds
until I return. Our cast included Alan Hewitt, Jordan Shawnee,
Augusta Dabney, E. V. Justter, and Jim Ducas. The entire
production was under the direction of I'mond Brown.
Speaker 1: This is E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.