Speaker 1: The TheBus radio mystery theater presents.
Speaker 2: Come in and.
Speaker 3: Welcome. I am E. G. Marshall. Our tale is all
about dying.
Speaker 1: Not about death, but about the actual moment of dying
and how it should.
Speaker 3: Be approached and dealt with.
Speaker 1: I think a lot about the moment of dying my own,
of course. I picture myself in a beautiful and rather
picturesque bed, something I don't own at the moment, but
I have time.
Speaker 3: I'll get around to it. My lovely wife who will survive.
Speaker 1: Me, holding my feeble hand, my children at the foot
of the beautiful bed, looking at me tenderly, and me
looking softly at them and saying softly.
Speaker 3: It's good. Heavens, what will I say?
Speaker 1: I've been so busy setting the scene, I haven't got
around the thinking of anything to say.
Speaker 4: Aren't you tell me?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 3: I can't why, No, it's easy, I can.
Speaker 5: Not quight No, But you'll love it here.
Speaker 6: Later maybe maybe later, but when as soon as I'm
finished here, I guess if you are finished, my.
Speaker 3: Friend, don't you know that?
Speaker 7: Not quite not quite finished, not quite yet, Oh but
you are finished.
Speaker 1: Our mystery drama death is so Trivial was written especially
for the Mystery there by els Eric and stars Tony
Robert and Christopher TABORI m it seems most strange to
me that men should fear seeing death unnecessary. End will
come when it will come.
Speaker 3: Those words were written by William Shakespeare.
Speaker 1: The important line is the last one will come when
it will come, not when it is expected, not when
it is convenient, not even when it is desired. No
death will come when it will come, which is the
theme of our strange tale. There I was walking to
work as usual, taking deep breadths to expand my lung,
was noting the time at regular intervals to be certain
might arrive at the library on the top, waiting for
every street crossing light.
Speaker 3: When I was dead, well, I suppose that.
Speaker 6: The thumb were the last to come out of my mouth,
and nobody.
Speaker 5: Heard it but me.
Speaker 3: The next fountain to reach.
Speaker 6: My ears were so incredibly beautiful that I lay quietly
in the street and listened.
Speaker 3: What else, after all, was there for me to do?
Speaker 6: There were voices, a marvelous blend of voices, coming from
far far away, and I knew. I don't know how
I knew, but I knew that these were the voices
of those who had died before me, and they were
summoning me to join them in a place of eternal joy.
I was about to do so, indeed, I was anxious
to do so, when suddenly it had never happened to
me before in all my twenty four years.
Speaker 7: Suddenly I became absolutely furious.
Speaker 8: Believe somebody, why is there a policemen around?
Speaker 6: And you didn't I heard some young female school for
a policeman, But I didn't care much. I James Blake,
was enjoying a sensation.
Speaker 3: I had not felt since when. I can't remember when.
It must have been many many years before, yet I
had once.
Speaker 6: It's because it swept over me.
Speaker 3: I felt such a surge of help and.
Speaker 6: Strength and power that it was impossible for me to
think of myself as it's dead, which is what I
most certainly was dead.
Speaker 3: I'm hearing that I was dead.
Speaker 4: I saw the whole thing.
Speaker 6: That man got in the car.
Speaker 8: That's a crazy man. I thought you were doing sixty
miles an hour.
Speaker 4: I was very nasty, went right next through the red light.
Speaker 5: He never slowed down, let alone stop.
Speaker 3: I think he was drunk.
Speaker 8: It must have been driving. I got one of those
expensive thought cars.
Speaker 4: I mean it was yellow. Yeah, yes, I'm positive it
was yellow. Unfortunately I didn't get the license number.
Speaker 8: And this poor man, it really is dead, isn't he?
Speaker 4: Are you gonna take him to the moors?
Speaker 6: I listened with a sort of detached interest. The police
questioned a few other people who have seen the accidents
the end of my life, and everyone said, yes, the
light had been with me. I hadn't had a chance.
Speaker 9: The driver must have.
Speaker 6: Been drunk or stone, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 3: It all seems very unimportant, and I was completely.
Speaker 6: Absorbed in my own new sensation, deep implacable anger.
Speaker 4: Who what what's the ambulance for?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Oh, you're gonna take him to the city hospital. Do
you think there's a chance.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: I hope so, but he certainly looks dead to me still,
if there's any chance at all.
Speaker 6: I watched them put my used up body in the ambulance,
and I knew everyone would do his duty.
Speaker 3: I didn't care.
Speaker 6: I knew I was dead, and I was furious.
Speaker 4: I certainly hope there's a chance for him, I do hope.
Speaker 6: So there I was all alone, somewhere between heaven and
the well, not even my body to hold me in
place man, and the quiet dimmed. One small voice, one
sweet small voice, separated itself from all the others and
spoke to me.
Speaker 4: What's the matter, James?
Speaker 3: Well? Who you speaking to me?
Speaker 4: Of course?
Speaker 3: Aren't you going to join us? Uh? I can't, But
you'll love it here? May maybe later, later, maybe.
Speaker 6: Wendy, soon as I'm finished here, I guess.
Speaker 4: But you are finished, you know that, but not quite.
Speaker 3: Not quite finished, not quite yet.
Speaker 4: Well, of course, if you wanna stay in limbo forever?
Speaker 3: Is that where I am in limbo?
Speaker 4: Well, you're not with the dead and you're not with
the living.
Speaker 3: What would you call it? Am I a ghost?
Speaker 6: Of course not.
Speaker 4: You have to be properly dead before you can be
a ghost. I don't know what you are really. However,
if that's the way you want it.
Speaker 6: Don't go away?
Speaker 3: Oh please, don't go away.
Speaker 4: What do you want me to do?
Speaker 5: I don't wanna live in limbo?
Speaker 3: Couldn't you sort of stick around in a while? What more?
I need someone to talk to right now?
Speaker 4: If you're a funny one, you are.
Speaker 3: Now, what's so funny about me?
Speaker 6: Most people in your situation, which I might remind you,
is scarcely unique can't wait to join us.
Speaker 4: You keep hanging back for some reason.
Speaker 3: I can't father.
Speaker 6: I I I want to join you, especially now that
you and I have met, well sort of met.
Speaker 4: Why don't we really meet? Why not, James?
Speaker 6: You seem to know my name, but I don't know yours.
We don't bother much with names here. When I was alive,
they called me Cynthia. What a beautiful name, Cynthia. I
do want to join you, then, why don't you Because
I'm so angry? Uh, I don't want you to see
me for the first time, all all wild up like this.
Speaker 3: I'm not like this. Weally never have been.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 6: If you wanna stay in Rimbo indefinitely, Cynthia, how can
I explain it to you so you'll understand?
Speaker 3: It's the senselessness, a pure, utter idiocy of it.
Speaker 6: I don't know why, but suddenly I can't stand it.
Speaker 3: I suppose because it happened to me.
Speaker 6: I know people have to die, but but not so trivially,
not because somebody ran through a red light.
Speaker 5: Not for that.
Speaker 4: It's benown to happen, Oh, Cynthia.
Speaker 6: I never thought it would happen to me, to die
in such.
Speaker 3: A stupid senseless way.
Speaker 4: How did you think it would happen?
Speaker 6: I don't know, but all my life I've been so sensible,
sensible above everything else, never caused trouble, never got mixed
up in anything, never an egg way.
Speaker 5: You do understand what course I do?
Speaker 2: And now.
Speaker 6: Well, I may not have had much of a life.
As I look back on it, it wasn't much, but
it could have changed. And anyway, damn it, it was mine,
and no boozed up bonehead had the right to snatch
it away from me. I'm so mad.
Speaker 3: I a spit.
Speaker 6: Oh shame, Cynthia. You may not believe this, but like
this second, I feel.
Speaker 3: More alive than I ever did while I was living.
Speaker 6: There must be other people, people right here in this town,
who are gonna die for no reason at all, just
by accident, Cynthia, I can't leave this earth till I
stop all these ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Deaths, all of them.
Speaker 3: All of them.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna dedicate my entire afterlife to it.
Speaker 3: I shall not have died in.
Speaker 9: Vain medical Examiner's office, Doctor.
Speaker 2: Carling Rallier, this is doctor Hatch. Glad you're there.
Speaker 3: I came in early, first damned job.
Speaker 10: You know, Yes, I know, and that's why I hate
to tell you, but you may have to go alone.
Speaker 3: You said alone. You're you're not coming in?
Speaker 2: Well, my uh wife's not well.
Speaker 3: Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Maybe nothing serious. But on the other hand, you'll be
able to manage, won't you.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 6: Nobody's been brought in yet.
Speaker 5: Uh, I'll spot you soon.
Speaker 3: Looks like a dead one to me.
Speaker 9: Put 'em on the table, boys and let me have
a loo fort.
Speaker 6: Run over by an automobile. Doctor Hatch, looks like a
dead one to me.
Speaker 2: Well you know the procedure, doctor Crowley, just for your.
Speaker 6: Head, Yes, sir, I will.
Speaker 2: I'll be in as soon as I feel I canna
leave my wife.
Speaker 5: Oh a doctor Hatch, Eh, yeah, what is it?
Speaker 3: Maybe this one is be.
Speaker 6: Dead after all, I can't see him times of respiration.
Speaker 3: But on the other hand, he.
Speaker 6: Looks, he looks looks how he looks so angry?
Speaker 2: Doctor?
Speaker 6: I bet I get to him right away. I never
saw anybody look so angry.
Speaker 3: You must be alive.
Speaker 6: Nobody could be dead and look so so enraged.
Speaker 4: How do you intend to part saying on your actor life?
Speaker 3: Well, well, I haven't point figured that out. This is
a very new to me.
Speaker 4: You understand I see dogs starting along highway?
Speaker 5: You too?
Speaker 3: Are you interested in dog? Anybody anything? We're on the highway.
Speaker 4: You just get to the intersection, Jackson Bugabard.
Speaker 3: That's a terrible intersection. Nobody stops for anybody.
Speaker 6: Now, marvelous how you can get around when you've got
nobody in there?
Speaker 3: Here, little white dog, curly.
Speaker 6: Down or silly little thing.
Speaker 4: Don't see that big blue station liking it's going to
hit him, don't.
Speaker 6: I've got it, got him from there, I've saved him.
Speaker 4: You'll probably get run over anyhow, one of these things.
Speaker 3: No he won't, No, he won't. I'm going to keep
my eye on him.
Speaker 4: What about all the others?
Speaker 3: Them too?
Speaker 6: And cats and people and everybody?
Speaker 3: H then's there? Why did it take me too.
Speaker 6: Long to find out what I was born to do?
Speaker 4: I could have spit by a.
Speaker 3: Whole like doing this, Crincian.
Speaker 6: My after life is going to be a hundred times
more exciting.
Speaker 3: Than my life ever.
Speaker 11: Once I can't understand you and all my friends, the
official muscles should be completely relau Come in.
Speaker 4: Oh h, I I know I I'm not supposed to
be here.
Speaker 6: Now, you're certainly not supposed to be here.
Speaker 8: But I I saw the accident, and I was interested
in this. The officer said they'd bring him here.
Speaker 5: H Is that him?
Speaker 3: Look, you can't come in here.
Speaker 8: I I just wanna know if there's any hope.
Speaker 2: M may I clean.
Speaker 3: There's no hope.
Speaker 6: Yes, that's him.
Speaker 3: He's dead. Oh my gosh, what is it? What he's moved?
He's moved.
Speaker 4: I I didn't see him moved.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 3: I mean when you knocked at the door. I was
trying to find his pulse. There wasn't any.
Speaker 5: His arms were straight down at his side.
Speaker 3: Now look at.
Speaker 12: Them, God, just like he was hugging something or carrying something.
Speaker 3: This man can't be dead. He can't be.
Speaker 1: I had always thought that at the moment of dying,
the soul separated itself from the body and went his
own way, while the body stayed behind, to be finally
disposed of with some degree of circumspection at a greater
or lesser expense. But what if a particular soul is
too stubborn to leave the body it has inhabited for
so long, too stubborn and too angry. I'll be back
shortly with that too, Our hero James Blake appears to
be leading a double life in spite of the fact
that he is dead.
Speaker 3: His spirit is floating in the ether.
Speaker 1: Between heaven and Earth, pausing only long enough to save
some innocent from accidental demise. While his body lies on
a slab at the city hospital, watched with both horror
and fascination by a nervous intern and a young girl.
Speaker 3: He doesn't look mad anymore mad.
Speaker 6: When they first brought him in, he had such a
look on his face you wouldn't believe a person could
look so so angry as that somebody had played a
dirty trick on him and he wanted.
Speaker 5: To get even. Well.
Speaker 4: Uh, a man who has just been run over.
Speaker 8: A dead many positively is dead.
Speaker 3: As hard as his beating, he isn't breathing.
Speaker 4: Well, couldn't he be enough?
Speaker 3: Well, we'll watch him a call it coma uh maybe
or a shock.
Speaker 6: Even so, there ought to be some sign of life,
even if it's very faint.
Speaker 4: There's gotta be some reason why he's got his arms
that caught his dead like that, and.
Speaker 6: His hands, I mean, his fingers are bent like like
he was, I don't know, like he was.
Speaker 4: Sort of crazily something like, but he was carrying a baby.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, Oh sure, medical examiner, Dr Crowley, Doctor Crowley, everything.
Speaker 3: Well, all right, I guess only doctor Hatch.
Speaker 6: The man that was brought in just a little while ago,
James Blake getting run victim?
Speaker 3: What about him?
Speaker 6: There's no Bible signs, doctor Hatch, none that I can
find anyway.
Speaker 3: But there's something I can't figure it out.
Speaker 6: He was stretched down on the table and I was
looking for a postby both his hands were decided and
what I just left for a few seconds. There was
someone at the door, and when when we when I
got back to him, his arm had moved up to
his chest.
Speaker 3: His elbows were.
Speaker 2: Then reflex action, probably a pure reflex.
Speaker 3: It happened, he says the doctor.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'll try to get in. My wife's still running
your fever, but I'll do my best if you would, sir. Uh,
But you can manage, can't you?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: Outside, Doctor Hatch? How do I so long? Doctor Hatch?
Speaker 13: He says, reflect action.
Speaker 6: I guess that's why he doesn't look angry anymore.
Speaker 4: Too, reflex action in his state.
Speaker 3: There are muscles in the face, you know any of them?
Any Believe me, Doctor.
Speaker 4: Crowley, I know you're upset.
Speaker 9: I'll be all right, I'll manage.
Speaker 8: Look, while you're on the phone, something happened, but well,
what will happened?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: He's arm moved again.
Speaker 3: Let me see.
Speaker 8: Now they're stretched out out to the side, up to
the side like he was flying u floading a free fall.
Speaker 3: With a car shoe.
Speaker 4: He's on'm the moving you said, so the sort of waving.
Speaker 3: No, No, they're not.
Speaker 5: No, they're not moving.
Speaker 3: It's not popable for as to.
Speaker 5: Be moving or waving her anything.
Speaker 6: Look, doctor Hatch is gonna try to come in, he said,
So you might get her any minute.
Speaker 13: I'm I'll manage somehow, I'll manage.
Speaker 3: There, sit there, wor are you?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Having such a good time? I think the lamb was
so fast. It's marvelous the things I have done. Sympia up,
Where are you? I what to tell you? I'm yere,
I'm yea to Cynthia.
Speaker 6: There was a lady at a dinner party and they
were having lamb chops, little tiny lamb chops, and she said, oh, by,
what a treat and how delicious, And she picked one
up her fingers and she started Cynthia.
Speaker 3: It went down the wrong way into.
Speaker 6: Her esophagus, and she was choking, and the other people
pounded her on the back, and she was turning blue,
and I just reached in and pulled out the lamp shop.
Speaker 3: Oh she's all right.
Speaker 5: She was on the point of dying.
Speaker 3: But now she's all right.
Speaker 4: But then I came and let me tell you about
the hold up, the one in the bar. You saw it,
I'm not sure I saw the phone run.
Speaker 6: Well, this one was in a cheap little bar. This
man came in with a gun. He started waving it
around like a crazy man. I'm like, well, somebody's gonna
get killed, for sure. So I went to the police
box on the corner and I turned an alarm, and
sure enough, well, when the hold up man heard the
police siren, he ran out of the bar so fast,
so nobody got well, wait, wait, I haven't been killing.
The hold up man ran down the street saint and
with the police after him, and he turned into an
apartment building and started running up the stairs.
Speaker 3: I guess he was. He was trying to get to
the root. So I followed him. Of course, it was
easy for me.
Speaker 6: So when he got to uh all about the court
for I guess all of a sudden door, open.
Speaker 3: The door to one of the apartments. When it's gone,
I well, uh, the whole hold up.
Speaker 6: Man swiddled around and he had a gun in his hand,
and he pointed in a light at this man standing
in the doorway. I slammed the door so fast, Cynthia.
Speaker 8: Adjusting time.
Speaker 4: That was very nice game.
Speaker 6: And and then there was this uh woman who got
up in the middle of the night to take some medicine.
And she went into the bathroom and she didn't turn
on the light. Oh, I have done that so many
times since I one. Well, anyway, she took the wrong
medicine out of the medicine chest, the wrong bottle, a bottom.
Speaker 3: Full of something that would have killed her. I knocked
out of her hand. She thought she was just clumsy,
but she did turn on the light.
Speaker 6: And and then, well, imagine.
Speaker 3: How she felt.
Speaker 6: And I can imagine I imagine how I felt.
Speaker 3: Came this. I have a giving you a chance to
say anything? Have I?
Speaker 5: It's just that I am.
Speaker 6: Having such a wonderful time, leading such a wonderful life.
What did you wanna say, Cynthia, I said, listen, I
am listening.
Speaker 3: Can't you hear it? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Who what that jetliner is in trouble things.
Speaker 14: I hear it.
Speaker 5: I hear it.
Speaker 4: Two hundred and fifty eight people on that jetliner.
Speaker 3: I see it. I see it.
Speaker 6: I'm I'm coming. Wait wait for me.
Speaker 3: I'll get there. Oh. I wish I knew.
Speaker 6: About airplanes at the library once.
Speaker 4: I would have got remember projective what it said, you'll remember.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: We'll think of something.
Speaker 3: My jest, I don't think of something. Uh, wait for me,
Wait for me.
Speaker 5: I'll ring of something. I will, I will.
Speaker 3: I'll get there in time.
Speaker 8: Oh, doctor Crawley, the fingers have been behaving very peculiarly.
Speaker 3: I know. I know first to crooked once in there,
I know, I know all about it. I was standing
there too, you know, I thought.
Speaker 4: All are those all reefs like faction?
Speaker 3: They've got to be, haven't they?
Speaker 4: I I guess they do.
Speaker 6: I mean, what what else?
Speaker 8: You look?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: Look at his fingers?
Speaker 3: Why they're moving like man, Doctor.
Speaker 8: Crawley, that's an awful lot of waf Like that's you.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's doctor Hatch. I hope, So hello, hello, rally,
doctor Hatch? Is you call me?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: All right, hey, I'm all right, doctor Hatch.
Speaker 2: Well, my wife's feeling better now.
Speaker 6: Oh that's good, that's fine.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll be leaving the house pretty soon. Uh you
managing all right?
Speaker 3: Managing? No in a way. I mean I'm managing. But
I'll be glad when you get here. Dr Hatch. I'll
be there in a little while, thank you, doctor Hatch.
Doctor Hatch will be here any minute. Everything will be
all right. I hope it's the light. Would I do it?
It bounds to the game. I hope. What's this little gadget?
Speaker 4: What what one for? People who said sends me a
two hundred and fifty?
Speaker 3: And fine? Goodness? That best going yet?
Speaker 4: I think there's a war starting.
Speaker 5: What a war?
Speaker 4: Not of uniforms, guns.
Speaker 3: Looks like mobilization. Sink here. I can't handle a war.
Speaker 4: W of people are going to get killed, Dame, No.
Speaker 5: But all by accident.
Speaker 3: I suppose that's true.
Speaker 4: It is true.
Speaker 6: But to save everybody from getting children of war, Cynthia, I'm.
Speaker 3: Only one, one spirit.
Speaker 4: I'm all by myself, and this thing fare well, maybe
they won't be a war.
Speaker 3: I I just couldn't.
Speaker 5: Handle it by myself.
Speaker 4: Maybe it won't happen if I just had some help.
Speaker 5: Maybe you did.
Speaker 4: Maybe you could save all the people who.
Speaker 6: Are starving, starving, who's a move, starving, starving to death?
Speaker 4: Millions of them?
Speaker 3: But uh, I can't. Why are they starving?
Speaker 4: Well, maybe it's the weather.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's you know, too much food in one place
not enough in another. I don't know, James, I can't
change the weather. I can't take food from one place
and put it in another place.
Speaker 3: Cynthia, I'm all alone.
Speaker 4: Didn't come chin up change.
Speaker 5: I can't, not just yet, Sayvia, I can't.
Speaker 3: Not yet.
Speaker 6: I got a different stethoscope.
Speaker 5: I thought maybe the other one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's quiet. Now, there's no heartbeat, none at all.
Speaker 3: It wasn't the stethoscope.
Speaker 4: Oh he he's really dead, all right.
Speaker 9: You know, for a minute I thought it was me.
Speaker 6: Thought I was losing my hearing.
Speaker 5: But I couldn't find any pulp.
Speaker 9: I thought maybe I've.
Speaker 6: Gotten number some fight or nervousness or something.
Speaker 4: Are you still massive?
Speaker 3: Well, not as nervous as I was. Now that he's
stopped all that, uh that, you know, recronection.
Speaker 4: Well, he's he's very quiet, very quiet.
Speaker 6: Oh he's dead. Y, I I suppose he is.
Speaker 3: You suppose he is dead? Oh?
Speaker 8: I know that but but what what what are you
staring at?
Speaker 5: Its?
Speaker 3: Say? What about his face?
Speaker 4: Look at it?
Speaker 6: He looks very, very peaceful, Just not the way he's
supposed to look, the way all dead people are supposed
to look.
Speaker 4: I know, but look closest, look at his eyes. Did
you ever see a dead person who was crying.
Speaker 2: Long?
Speaker 1: I've never seen a corpse who cried still. Why shouldn't
the realization that all things are swallowed up in death
be a cause for tears? But how many corpses cry?
Speaker 5: They cry they do for.
Speaker 1: Their own dead, and how many cry for the deaths
of others?
Speaker 3: Cry that they cannot save them all from being swallowed up.
Speaker 6: I'll be back shortly with Act three.
Speaker 1: We left the body of our hero, James Blake, aged
twenty four, lying prone on a table in the headquarters
of the Medical Examiner's office at the City Hospital, while
the spirits of that Thames James Blake floated through the
great spaces between this world and the next, bound on
a great mission to rescue all those destined.
Speaker 6: To die, as he had died by sheer accident. He
hasn't moved for quite a while, and he isn't crying anymore.
Doctor carl him. Do you do you think I ought
to to wipe his eyes?
Speaker 3: A couple of tears left?
Speaker 4: Do you want me to?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, I'll do it after all. Well, I'm the attending physician.
Oh my good to explain.
Speaker 4: H Maybe you won't have to explain anything. He he's
very quiet.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know how.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't know what to say after I could think
it's dreaked down.
Speaker 4: I'd like, Oh, why don't you go get a drink?
It might help a drink.
Speaker 3: I'm on duty.
Speaker 8: We'll let me go get yourself a cup of coffee. H.
I think it would do you good to get out
of here for a few minutes.
Speaker 3: What a doctor?
Speaker 4: Well, I tell him something?
Speaker 3: Why could you possibly tell him of who? Or who?
Would you say you are?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll say I'm your You'll see I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, my my.
Speaker 8: Name is is Daisy.
Speaker 3: My name is Fred.
Speaker 4: Well, go on, said, go get your touch some coffee.
You need it.
Speaker 6: Oh, well, I'll be right.
Speaker 3: Down the hall the nursing station. There's a coffee machine.
Speaker 6: Call me if uh, if he does anything.
Speaker 4: I will don't worry.
Speaker 3: I know he's dead. I'm positive of that.
Speaker 6: But well, you know, I know, well run alone. I
real they appreciate the day.
Speaker 15: That's all right, friend, mister James Blake, what made you
so unhappy?
Speaker 3: Prince?
Speaker 15: You looked angry and then you looked almost pleased.
Speaker 3: Then you cried.
Speaker 4: Followed you here.
Speaker 8: I was the one who called the police and they
called the ambulance. I I I never telling you when
you were alive, but I've seen you almost constantly since
the moment you died.
Speaker 4: Oh, please tell me why you were angry.
Speaker 6: And tell me why you were pleased.
Speaker 4: Tell me why you cried. Oh, please tell me, mister Blake. Boy,
I I didn't answer.
Speaker 12: As yes, you wish to seak to doctor prow Oh,
oh yes, doctor hat Oh uh.
Speaker 4: Dr Crowley had to step out to him in and
give me right back. He said, to tell you if
you called us.
Speaker 5: Or if you came in, tell him.
Speaker 1: I'll Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm just about to leave the house and I'll be
there about.
Speaker 3: Ten or fifteen minutes. Oh, I'll tell him.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Oh, please, Jane think, please tell me why you cried. Jane, Well, you,
James and Cynthia.
Speaker 5: I'm here, Cynthia, are you ready to join us?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 5: No, I don't think so, not yet, you'll like it here.
I still like it here sort of.
Speaker 6: Did I tell you about to stick up at the bank.
Speaker 5: No, you didn't. We haven't walked in a long time.
Speaker 6: Well, this man came into the bank, Uh, had a
gun in his hand, and kept my eye on it.
On the gun, mostly because it wouldn't be any of
my business if he just took some money, as long
as he didn't take somebody's.
Speaker 3: Life, of course.
Speaker 6: Well, well, it was just like every stick up you've
ever read about.
Speaker 3: Was a scene in the movies.
Speaker 14: Uh, the man said, uh, uh.
Speaker 3: There's a stick up.
Speaker 6: And everybody got frightened and simply froze. And the man
went to one of the teller's windows had to tell
her a note.
Speaker 5: They all do it the same way.
Speaker 2: Go what happened?
Speaker 6: Uh, Well, I said, everybody got frightened and froze.
Speaker 3: Everybody did, accept one old lady.
Speaker 5: This old lady wasn't frightened, and.
Speaker 6: She didn't freeze.
Speaker 3: She walked straight.
Speaker 6: Toward the man with the gun. She said, in this
loud sort of a.
Speaker 4: Voice, just what do you think you're doing? Don't like
to take other people's money. Goes to know I'm a
smed of you, but singed of you.
Speaker 6: The man would a gun uh way out of a bank?
Speaker 5: And that was that?
Speaker 4: What about the old lady?
Speaker 6: She cast her check, and then Sheila was what about
the gun truck?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, I caught the bullets in my head. It's
pretty quite easy once you get the hang of it.
Speaker 6: You've done it off.
Speaker 3: But oh sure, crazy.
Speaker 6: People are always shooting up places that are dumpfending themselves
against people who never meant them any harm, or just
showing off.
Speaker 4: And you down so got a time.
Speaker 6: Well, it's just that there's so much to be done,
and uh, there's just.
Speaker 3: Me to do it. It seems so endless. It just
goes on and on.
Speaker 6: Yes, I am tired, Cynthia.
Speaker 4: Then why don't you stop, come be with us?
Speaker 3: I can't. I not just yet. I think of the
poor innocent.
Speaker 6: People and all the animals.
Speaker 3: Oh I hope I don't start but crying. I will
soon join you, Cynthia, I mean, not just yet.
Speaker 6: I brought some cofee back for you.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, said, how uh how is he? Oh
he's been very quiet. Oh doctor Hotch calls. He said,
he'll be here soon. It's ten fifteen minutes or so.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 6: He moved his hand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just now he moved his hand.
Speaker 6: He's going it again. But he looks like he died.
Speaker 3: I thought you said he was quiet. Who he was again?
Speaker 4: Go to snatching a thing?
Speaker 5: Three times?
Speaker 6: Don't tell me that tree cluck at you now after
all this time?
Speaker 4: But then, who what is it?
Speaker 3: How don't I know?
Speaker 4: It must mean something?
Speaker 3: The man said, How can he mean something?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 8: I don't know, but I'm weak at it.
Speaker 3: I sat for a minute that he was gonna cry again.
Speaker 4: No, no, he hasn't cried again.
Speaker 6: But oh, friendt he looks so sad.
Speaker 4: I I never thought anybody looks so sad.
Speaker 5: James, where are you?
Speaker 4: I'm worried about you, James, where are you?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: I'm here, Cynthia, Oh my dear, you sounds so tired.
That's because I am tired.
Speaker 4: Tell me what you can do.
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Well? There was this uh, little old couple from Grand Falls.
Uh huh. They were shopping for sewing machine. She thought
she wanted a sewing machine.
Speaker 4: Oh look at that one, hund where which one in
the corner of that window?
Speaker 14: How much?
Speaker 6: I can't speak from here?
Speaker 3: Come on, Daling, don't push me, but you're bullying me.
Speaker 6: I I am not pulling. Oh why father hook, look
at bull there's a windows.
Speaker 8: It must have fallen from that window, led from way
up there.
Speaker 6: Off, somebody's leaning out of the window.
Speaker 5: There's a whole old window.
Speaker 4: Boxes and that's one tho from way up there. Oh,
it could have landed right on top of it.
Speaker 10: Still, there's pose for sure, if you hadn't pused me,
if you hadn't pushed me.
Speaker 4: When I think what might have happened if you hadn't pulled, you.
Speaker 6: Mean if you hadn't pushed me.
Speaker 5: I didn't push.
Speaker 6: That was an easy one, of course. The only easy
is ever class only there's so many of them. I know, Cynthia,
I'll never get around with the walls.
Speaker 3: I'm the famine. I know it's too much, it shut
too much.
Speaker 15: I know.
Speaker 5: Still I have to do what I can sing.
Speaker 6: Close up as a man coming out of his house
on Birch.
Speaker 4: Street, see him carrying a little black man.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the worm, Cynthia looks like a doctor gonna
get to him. He doesn't see it.
Speaker 8: He see what James, James, come back, come back.
Speaker 6: I've checked everything for the young teen's time.
Speaker 3: I'm positive he's dead. Imagine.
Speaker 9: I even did that old fashioned trick of holding a
mirror in front of his mouth.
Speaker 6: To see if it would cloud up.
Speaker 4: Well, doctor Hatch will be here soon, Daisy.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: We're not gonna tell him anything, are we, well? Like
like what like uh Mike, all those movements like crying.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe we just imagined.
Speaker 4: All that, you know, we didn't imagine. If it's not
any of it, I know, but it is the sort
of thing you have to see before you believe it.
Speaker 6: Doctor Hatch didn't see it. He wasn't here morning mowning.
Speaker 14: Try to be late, Crawley.
Speaker 3: And that's all right, doctor Hatch. Uh. Oh, why doctor,
this is?
Speaker 5: Did this is? Daisy?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Fred said I could stay here. I I saw the accident.
Speaker 6: Oh you're the young lady who answered the phone.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry. I wanna set Fred because he'd let
you stay here. Thank you, doctor Hatch. Uh.
Speaker 6: Let's have a look at him.
Speaker 3: Fetch me my step of scrope. Crawley gets her in
my black bag.
Speaker 5: Y he's dead, isn't uh.
Speaker 3: He certainly looks sad to me.
Speaker 6: Oh, say, you know, I damned they didn't make it
this morning. Damn this thing happened?
Speaker 4: Oh what was that?
Speaker 6: Coming out of my house?
Speaker 3: I slipped on some ice.
Speaker 10: Now imagine that I lost my balance completely. I tried
to stop myself every which way, but I couldn't. I thought, great, Scott,
I'm lucky if I wind up with it's nothing worse
than a concussion, and lucky if I don't kill myself.
Speaker 5: Then you know what happened. I swear to you.
Speaker 6: My head was an inch from the.
Speaker 3: Sidewalk when all of a sudden I righted myself.
Speaker 4: How did you do that?
Speaker 3: Down?
Speaker 10: I final I I if I just did, I must
have been a muscle coordination than I thought. I swear
I felt that though somebody had caught hold of me
and put me back on my feet. Well, this one instead,
all right? Been dead for almost an hour, I'd say, yeah,
about an hour. Hey, look at him? What is it,
doctor Hatch. Look at the expression on his face. I
never saw it a dad I looked like that. He's smiling, big,
broad smile. Never saw such a happy looking Courts in
my life, actually smiling.
Speaker 4: Sinvia right here changed.
Speaker 6: It's wonderful to see you, Cynthia.
Speaker 3: After all, it's time.
Speaker 6: It's wonderful that then you, jain, is this where we're
going to live?
Speaker 3: This is where we all live? It's beautiful.
Speaker 4: I knew you'd like it.
Speaker 3: I do like it, Cynthia. I tried, I really did try.
Speaker 5: I know you did change.
Speaker 3: I helped the few people then you did. But I
couldn't do it all alone.
Speaker 6: Nobody passed, Cinthia.
Speaker 16: Imagine a war where no one got killed. Yes, imagine
a world where nobody starved to death. You're smiling, Pallala,
They're all waiting points.
Speaker 1: I was always and took in strains that might create
a soul under the ribs of death, so wrote the
great poet of the seventeenth century.
Speaker 3: John Milton.
Speaker 1: And with the music of the heavenly voices, James Blake
enters the place of everlasting Blitz, having given at least
a portion of himself to his fellow man. If not
in life, then in death. Who knows what happens to
us when life has left us? Certainly not I Why
couldn't it be that the soul lingers for a while,
as long as no one really knows for sure what
the soul does when stripped of its body, why not pretend?
Why not imagine that it leaves the body gracefully and
a little regretfully, pausing to consider what it is losing
before dashing.
Speaker 3: Off to see what it is gaining.
Speaker 1: Our cast included Tony Roberts, Christopher the Bori, Suzanne Grossman,
Brian Rayburn and Dan Acko. The entire production was under
the direction of Hymon Brown and now a preview of
our next tale.
Speaker 5: So let me tell that body to that place.
Speaker 3: Please please, Rachel, don't talk like that.
Speaker 5: I let go bring me.
Speaker 3: Rachel. You're so star you can do anything.
Speaker 4: You can do anything, Rachel, You'll bring me back.
Speaker 3: Rachel. Well, I I I for the people.
Speaker 5: Honey, you are wonderful.
Speaker 4: I know, I know there are things you can do.
Speaker 6: Oh, Barnie, promise, Why.
Speaker 5: I promise, and I'll help.
Speaker 4: I'll try as hard as I can to help it
and to two up.
Speaker 3: We do it together.
Speaker 5: We we can do it.
Speaker 6: We can springle that radio.
Speaker 1: Mystry Theater were sponsored in part by important Dino rose Wyan.
Speaker 3: This is Eg Marshall inviting you to.
Speaker 1: Return to our Mystry Theater for another adventure in the macabre.
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Speaker 14: Eight minutes half