Speaker 1: He gets satisfaction reading the obituary notices.
Speaker 2: Have you ever felt that way?
Speaker 1: Most of us have. We dream the supreme revenge. An
enemy is alive one minute, dead the next.
Speaker 2: That's in a dream.
Speaker 1: No one except a person with a criminally twisted mind,
ever commits murder. But Alex Hunter found a way, quite ingeniously.
He turned frustration and jealousy into an instrument of death
and got away with it.
Speaker 3: What's wrong, Alex?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 3: Fillis again?
Speaker 2: Yes, she's all wrong.
Speaker 5: Oh dear, such a beautiful young woman.
Speaker 3: I thought you were devoted to her.
Speaker 2: I became infatuated with her, But that's not love. Look
I'm fifty.
Speaker 1: Five, she's thirty three, proud of a beauty, tantalizing to
other men, demanding, and I fear unfaithful older man, beautiful
younger woman.
Speaker 2: And the second marriage that for me is un better.
Speaker 1: I'm very sorry. And that's until death us do part. Alex.
Does that shock you, gentle Abbey, Then allow me to
put it more bluntly, I wish that Phyllis were dead.
In our mystery drama, Murder by Proxy was written especially
for the mystery theater by Roy Windsor and stars Mandel Kramer.
The old aphorism insists that marriage is.
Speaker 2: Made in heaven.
Speaker 1: Can it be unmade on a jumble jet flying from
Los Angeles to Chicago. Mister Alexander Hunter fifty five is
a prominent investment banker. He lives in Evanston, Illinois. Two
years ago his first wife died. He married again, Phyllis Wilson,
a divorcee. Phyllis is thirty three, physically beautiful and conscious
of it. Intelligent and opportunistic. Marriage to alex Hunter assured
her of wealth, affection, and a social position.
Speaker 2: Men desired her, but did not love her.
Speaker 1: A tragic young woman, a victim of her own beauty,
pretending to an ego she did not have.
Speaker 2: Her doom was almost foreordained.
Speaker 1: High above the bank of clouds over Kansas, alex Hunter
has a strange encounter mind. If I join you, mister Hanne, No, no,
of course, not well, how do you know my name?
Do I know you?
Speaker 2: Sure you don't remember? That's all? Eh.
Speaker 4: It's nice saying this five miles up in the air,
and it looked like a.
Speaker 2: Bar in line in a Chicago hotel. It's not for me.
Speaker 4: I don't mean so much to you because you fly
like this all the time, but it's a.
Speaker 2: First for me. You're used to it, yes, yes, that's true.
The novelty has worn off. One gets used to those things.
There's some you don't get used to, mister h.
Speaker 4: Well, if you'll excuse me, at prison, you don't get
used to prison. Yeah, the pan the big house. I
was in for twenty years, and I didn't.
Speaker 2: Get used to it. It's very interesting. You want to
hear what it's like, mister Hunter.
Speaker 1: Not particularly. It does sound depressing. I'm happy that you're free.
Speaker 2: Now you'll be good and be mister Hunter.
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that? Why do you keep repeating,
mister Hunter, this, mister Hunter, that I don't know who
you are without meaning to be rude. I really would
like to return to my seating.
Speaker 2: There's lots of time for that. Thanks for saying you're
happy I'm free. You're a nice man. I wish you wasn't.
Just who are you? What are you driving? As well? Laws?
Speaker 4: That's bladder. Tim Cohan's the name, Remember Tim Cohen?
Speaker 1: Who name means something does ring a bell? Yes, Tim Cohane.
I was on a jury once and there was a
Tim Cohen. Yes, now I remember we tried you for murder.
I was the jury foreman. You pleaded manslaughter murder without
malice express oin PLI. I recall the judge defining the
charge for us, and we sent you to prison for life.
Speaker 2: Juliet Right. Twenty years mister Harber the old.
Speaker 1: For good behavior, and I'm very commendable it.
Speaker 2: But it doesn't bring back the jeweler you shot when
he found you robbing his storm licked before he died.
The old man identified you as the man who shot him.
It was licked, so you kept insisting, but your finger prints,
mister Kahan.
Speaker 4: He shot the old man and dropped the gun he
was grabbing the jewelry.
Speaker 2: I picked up the gun. There's why. Yes, we never
did get nick, did we? And the air tight alibis
I recall here.
Speaker 1: Well, it seems you've paid your penalty to society and
I wish you well.
Speaker 2: Are you really cool? Mister Hunther?
Speaker 4: Twenty years in the cam Remember I've brought in the
pen for twenty years.
Speaker 2: My wife has to sell the bungalow.
Speaker 4: The kids run wild, She gets sick and can't get
the kind of medical helps she needs, and she dies.
Speaker 2: Who cares? Do you care? She's dead and my kids
are gone who knows where now?
Speaker 4: It was just a day's work for you and the
rest the bum's guilty selling to the pen And when
the bun comes out, what she come out too? Nothing
might as well be dead and you wish me well.
I'm sorry about your wife and children. I was twenty
eight when you cut off my life.
Speaker 2: A jury sentenced to you, mister Kahan. You cut off
your own life.
Speaker 1: A jury found you guilty of murder, but settled for
manslaughter and sent you to prison willfully or without malice.
Express you caused a death, and you've paid the penalties.
Speaker 4: You ain't paid, mister Hurley, meaning what I'm gonna killed you.
Mister Hulton, you are.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: You amaze me. Tim, May I call you Tim?
Speaker 1: We seem to have.
Speaker 2: Embarked on a very close relationship. An where cool, mister Hunter.
Speaker 4: I didn't know if you yelled for help, I had
I shoot sure, died on the spot.
Speaker 2: And what about you me too? I've got nothing to
live for. What's to prevent me from reporting your threat
to the captain. I'm sticking close to you, mister Huldy.
Speaker 1: That's why I flew fish class when we land.
Speaker 2: So I point you out to the police, I'll be
gone and they'll think you are nuts. Mm when you
do have a point, Oh, why don't you kill me now?
I'll get it over with.
Speaker 4: It's too easy for twenty years, mister Hundry. It's a
long time to sweat it out. Think you sweat it
out for how long a day, a week? I don't
know in this city in your house?
Speaker 2: You know where I live, sure, Heavenston, some house and
uh missus Hunter if.
Speaker 4: If she's some dish, Yes, a beautiful woman.
Speaker 2: I'll miss her, timm, I missed my wife. I know
she's dead. I have no choice. I suppose you know
I am quite rich. Uh uh, no choice. You're gad,
mister Hundy. I see. And you selected me because I
was foreman of that jury, isn't right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: And if I get away with knocking you off, you
get this money as the others as I can before.
Speaker 2: Young cop gets me. So my days are numbered. You've
been following menton?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, l I am back because it kills you
anytime in the last five days.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you?
Speaker 4: I wanted to talk first so you know what was
gonna happen. And then sweat it out.
Speaker 2: Your form of torture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it hasn't worked out that way. Maybe you're
scared stiff, but I don't see it. You play it cool.
I accept what's inevitable. Tim you're determined to kill me.
If a person is willing to die for murder, nothing
can prevent him from committing it.
Speaker 2: As as.
Speaker 1: Then let's have a drink together, a drink to the
great adventure.
Speaker 2: Oh, Jimmy, missus Hunter, you fool. W Are you gonna
invite me? Oh? I know you are madly in love
with me.
Speaker 3: Oh I am am.
Speaker 5: I You'll forget that. I am Missus Alexander Hunter, a
respectable housewife, and you you are, uh well, what are you?
Speaker 3: Exactly? The public paramoark not true.
Speaker 2: I have eyes only for you, and you.
Speaker 3: And you and you.
Speaker 5: You are a fake Jimmy Marquette, but you are a
reasonably attractive flirt, a flatny.
Speaker 6: Now look at you standing there in a thin silk
PANOI luring even without makeup, A wicked look in your eyes.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, fellas, kid yourself. Don't try to kid me.
Oh I dare you let me in?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Bo If alex walked in now and found you standing
here oakling his wife.
Speaker 2: Oh am I ever, well, stop it.
Speaker 5: I have to get dressed for your party, or have
you come to say it's off?
Speaker 2: No more time. I uh wanted to make sure you'd
be there.
Speaker 5: Oh that's flattering. I suppose, yes, we'll be there.
Speaker 1: Oh you have to bring the old man.
Speaker 3: You invited us?
Speaker 2: Natcha me, Phyllis. I feel you know how I feel
about you.
Speaker 3: You are off limits, Jimmy.
Speaker 5: Alex is not exactly the permissive type.
Speaker 2: But how do you stand name? He just doesn't fit
in with someone our age.
Speaker 5: He's not that old, and he's rich and all this,
the house, the cars, the land is all mine.
Speaker 2: Well I'm not exactly poor baby.
Speaker 5: I settled for Alex Hunter, and I won't unsettle for you.
Speaker 6: But couldn't we see each other a longe sometime You're not?
Just thinking about you drives me wild. And when I
think about you and him.
Speaker 3: Bye bye, Jimmy, just bye bye.
Speaker 5: Alex should be home soon and we'll be at your
party in an hour.
Speaker 2: Oh sweet Phyllis, make me immortal with the kids. Oh,
you have got it bad.
Speaker 5: Goodbye, not on my doorstep, if you please go by hide.
Speaker 2: So what do you think, girl?
Speaker 1: You told this guy in the plane, this mister Hunter,
you was gonna knock him off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tim, come on, you lost your marbles.
Speaker 4: Uh, Hunter was forming of the jury that sent me up.
I'm gonna kill him and the rest of the LOUSI twelve.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, listen to him. You haven't got a chance
in a million. Timmy, baby, you just got out of
the pen.
Speaker 2: You want to go back going. I ain't going back.
I'm killing Hunter. If I get killed, it don't matter.
You mean it, don't you? Yeah, and you're gonna help me? Oh, Tim,
I don't know. I don't like it. You don't have
to like it.
Speaker 4: You drive your car and we stake out of his house,
and I take care of him, and you get me
away from them, just like that.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: You think this guy is dumb or something. He's got
cops crawling all over his place. I know not this guy,
not mister Hunter. He's kind of weird. He said. If
a guy.
Speaker 4: Wants to murder another guy and doesn't care if he
gets hit, then the guy who's gonna be murdered ain't
got a chance.
Speaker 2: Listen to me.
Speaker 1: You knocked Kim Moore if you'll be running until they
get you, you don't make sense.
Speaker 2: Take me have a ten can. It's a forty five
minute drive to Emerson from here.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, bobo, listen, tell this is it?
Speaker 4: And when I gets over with twenty years in the pen,
I begin to get even Tonight.
Speaker 1: Phyllis dying. I just got home from the coast. I've
spent a rough couple of hours in the office, and
I have to go to a party.
Speaker 3: Why not, they'll do you good to relax with friends.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, friends. Most of them are young enough
to be my What.
Speaker 3: Difference does that make. They're successful, and they're interesting, and.
Speaker 2: They drink too much and they pall over you.
Speaker 3: Oh you're jealous?
Speaker 2: Well yes, I find it offensive.
Speaker 3: Ah, don't be stuffy?
Speaker 1: Is it stuffy to be offended on a slob like
Jim Marquette ogles you and palls you, and.
Speaker 3: You let him And just what do you mean by that?
Speaker 2: Please? Sohill, let's not quarrel. I love you, I don't
want to share you with.
Speaker 5: No one loves me, no one, no one ever had.
Since I was eighteen, I knew what I did to men,
and I knew what they wanted but that wasn't love,
and you are no different. You were in love with
your first wife, and you want me to think that
you're in love with me.
Speaker 3: Don't kid yourself, Alex.
Speaker 5: My blonde hair and my face and my long legs
excite you.
Speaker 3: But you are not in love with me.
Speaker 5: I am I coming along with me to Jimmy's party?
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not? I low that leering ladies. Man, And besides,
I want to stay close to home, Phillis. A man
is swept to kill me? What I expect that he will?
I wanted to spend this night with you.
Speaker 5: Are you serious, Alex? A man is going to kill you.
Speaker 2: It's no joke. I won't you stay home with me?
Speaker 5: A man's going to kill you? Oh, don't be absurd
and don't scolop me as if you'd like to kill me?
Speaker 3: Would you?
Speaker 2: My dear?
Speaker 5: Sometimes, isn't that what you feel? Beautiful cirtatious phyllis my
wife with her bohemian friends.
Speaker 3: How if she were dead?
Speaker 5: End of jealousy, end of suffering, end of suspicions, unfound dead?
Speaker 2: You can say that with a straight face.
Speaker 5: You and Jimmy Marquette, who believe what you want to Alex,
send your imagined killer after me. You like that, wouldn't you, Alex?
Speaker 2: Sometimes you can almost read my thoughts, My dear.
Speaker 1: Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the least pitied.
Speaker 2: By those who cause it.
Speaker 1: That maxim was coined by Laroche, who called three hundred
years ago. Alex Hunter indeed is a jealous man. His
doubts nor weighed is insides. He's old, she's young, and
tantalizing to others.
Speaker 2: He's married to her.
Speaker 1: But he doesn't possess her. Out there in the dark.
Is a man determined to murder Alex Hunter?
Speaker 2: Is he afraid? Probably not? Death would be a relief.
Speaker 1: I'll return shortly with that too. Twenty years ago, Alex
Hunter was foreman of a jury which sent Tim Kohane
to prison for murder. During those two decades, Tim determined
that when he was released and he was for good behavior,
he would kill Hunter. An extraordinary vow impossible. Indeed, not
each of us, at one time or another, has said
I could kill you.
Speaker 2: We say it, but we seldom mean it literally.
Speaker 1: Phyllis, Alex Hunter's young and beautiful wife, has gone alone
to Jimmy Marquette's party.
Speaker 2: It's now eight thirty, Alex.
Speaker 5: I can't believe that you speaking you you wish Phylist dead?
Speaker 2: This Alex, what nonsense? Wh've ben handing? Abby? I suppose
it does sound like nonsense.
Speaker 3: Lall, of course it is wishing Sylla is dead.
Speaker 1: Oh, Robber's quarrel over my morning. Tell us about your trip, Alex.
He's serious, Lamb, nonsense, which Philla is dead?
Speaker 2: Striking girl here to be envy? Old chap. Now go
home and make up, and you know you're a tonic Limb.
I'm glad. I'm good for something.
Speaker 3: Alex. You frighten me. You are serious, aren't you?
Speaker 2: If it will rub that expression of worry off your face, Abbey,
I assure you that I was only thinking aloud. Feeling
aloud is more like it.
Speaker 1: But there are times when when I would give anything
not to have married Phyllis, not to have lost friends
my own age like both of you, not to have
lost knights of sleep, not to have as my constant
companion the old green eyed monster of jealousy.
Speaker 2: It's quite a statement, Alex. You mean the marriage hasn't
worked out in the last few months. It's fallen apart.
Speaker 1: Oh, I am sorry to hear that, and I suppose
it was to be expected May in September. Marriages may
work sometimes, but not for Phyllis and me.
Speaker 2: She's twenty two years younger than I am physically beautiful.
But she's a morals she really is.
Speaker 3: That's a very serious accusation.
Speaker 1: Alex, abbe she's a hopeless flirt. Isn't that than the
old fashioned word to apply to a woman?
Speaker 2: Are you sure you are being in stuffy? Alex?
Speaker 3: Is she at home?
Speaker 1: She went to Jim Marquette's party. I don't make shore drive.
I was invited, but I wanted to stay home. We quarreled.
She drove over alone and I stayed at home. Fixed
the sandwich one for a stroll. Your lights were on,
of course, of course I wish I could make a suggestion.
Speaker 2: I haven't got one, of course. Not well. My troubles
will be passed sooner than you expect.
Speaker 3: Divorce.
Speaker 2: No murder, what murder? Have you lost your mind?
Speaker 3: Alice?
Speaker 1: You could no?
Speaker 2: No, certainly not. I mean my murder? What are you
talking about? It makes sense, Alex.
Speaker 1: Twenty years ago I was forming of a jury which
sent a man name Tim Kohen to prison for murder.
He was released after twenty years, and he's determined to
murder me and the rest of the jury, and he will.
Speaker 2: His life means nothing to him. How do you know
all this? We had an interesting chat on the plane
from Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Totally mad you and this convicted about about his plan
to murder you.
Speaker 3: You didn't have him arrested.
Speaker 2: I couldn't report him. He'd have shot me then and
there and then himself.
Speaker 3: What did you report this to the police.
Speaker 1: And a man's willing to die to commit murder, the
police are helpless.
Speaker 2: They could have picked him and charged him with what
threatening me? He deny it. And who won't believe my
fantastic story.
Speaker 3: You've done nothing.
Speaker 2: There's nothing for me to do.
Speaker 1: And I don't really care that much, and be my
life is barren. I have memories that I haven't added
to them since I married Fellas. It's the most outlanded
story I've ever heard.
Speaker 2: I I won't believe any of it.
Speaker 3: I do, Len.
Speaker 2: You'll think this convict is out here in Evans.
Speaker 1: I have no idea where he is. He spoke to
me tonight when I left South Street, just like that.
Speaker 2: He was very pleasant. Soon mister Hunter.
Speaker 3: He said, it's a nightmare.
Speaker 1: Limb called the Police'll please, Abby, Look, it will happen.
Speaker 2: Nothing can stop it.
Speaker 1: It's my life, my problem, and I won't involve others
in it. If he kills me, and he's killed, I
may have saved eleven other lives.
Speaker 2: Good night, Alex, don't go nice. Limb.
Speaker 1: THEMB the police right away.
Speaker 3: It's the police, Limb, that's.
Speaker 2: Right, right, I hope it's an officer right now.
Speaker 1: Al Right, evening, mister Small, Joe, I'm glad that you
come in, Come in, Abby, Lieutenant O'Malley.
Speaker 3: Oh of course, how are you, Joe?
Speaker 5: I saw fancy and that handsome boy of yours the
other day in Fountain Square.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he's quite a boy, missus Small.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate your coming around, Joe? Did did I
s how crazy?
Speaker 1: I'm the telephone? Well kind of? You mean someone really
is gunning for mister Hunter. Why's absolutely ex contract named
Tim Kohen, twenty years in the jug. He wants revenge
on the jury which sent him to Juliet, and he's
going to kill him.
Speaker 2: One by one. That's crazy.
Speaker 1: There's a great he sounds crazy even talking about it.
But Hunter left here half an hour ago, and he
doesn't think he's crazy. He expects to be shot. He's
at home now. Maybe not, maybe he's maybe he's wandering
around making himself Italian.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I thought i'd better report it. Well.
Speaker 1: Look, if mister Hunter knows the killers after him, why
would he be wandering around.
Speaker 2: He's a little crazy too, Joe. Lots of worries. This
is a new one on me.
Speaker 1: Yes, me too.
Speaker 2: He wasn't drinking, No, no, no, col Shover doesn't drink
much at all. No.
Speaker 1: The ex Cohn talked with him on the plane.
Speaker 2: Said his number was up. So what was fatalistic about it?
Speaker 1: Expects to get it anytime needs protection, he'll get it.
My partner and me and the prow car will watch
the house, and if we get a call, one of
us will hang around mister Hunter's house. Thanks, Joe, he's
my best friend, don't I don't want to see her right?
Speaker 2: Good night?
Speaker 3: Good night Joe, Oh, good night Joe.
Speaker 1: Good night missus small nice man, Joe, o'melly limb.
Speaker 5: I don't feel right about this. I mean, shouldn't one
of us be over there with.
Speaker 2: Alex frankly, No, let the police handle it.
Speaker 1: It's late. It's eleven o'clock. That it was a long talk,
poor man. Yep, He finally sees Phyllis as his friends
have always seen her.
Speaker 5: Vain, arrogant to tease, and rather common now be fair limb.
A beautiful woman often has to become hard. So many
men desire that she's she's forced to become distrustful. Her
defense is to pantalize them, make them squirm, make fools
of themselves, and then when she's masculated him says goodbye.
Speaker 3: I understand that.
Speaker 1: But Alex married her, he loves her. Why can't she
relax and give him a decent marriage?
Speaker 5: And maybe because she can't, her guard's been up so
long it's become a wall between her and trust.
Speaker 3: She really is a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: The shell is beautiful and not her mind and soul.
He never should have married her. I guess he thinks
she's unfaithful to him.
Speaker 5: You mean with Jim mrcad, I no, lemb He's just
the latest she's leading through her hoops.
Speaker 3: A woman like phillis nervous that comes.
Speaker 5: If she did, she'd be vulnerable, and she's not that.
Speaker 2: Hey, how long we're gonna wait? We wait until mister
Hunting comes home. He went out of at eight City.
Speaker 1: Man, you gotta knocked him off, then I want to
talk with him first.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like hanging around like this, parked in
some guy's driveway. Well, if he comes home, what's he
gonna think us parked in his driveway?
Speaker 2: We're turning around. That's all relaxed. Hey, Hey, there's a
Prowl car to him.
Speaker 1: He has stopping at Hunter's house.
Speaker 7: One cop is going up to the front door. Come on,
let's get out of here.
Speaker 2: To share it on. Let's watch.
Speaker 1: Ah, he's coming back.
Speaker 2: Sure, nobody's home. The door's locked. What about the wife?
Speaker 4: The car's gone Hunt his car, she's out someplace. See
CoP's getting back into the prow car and and they're leaving. Now,
I'll take it easy.
Speaker 2: He see easy? How long we gonna hang around?
Speaker 4: He look, another guy's pulling to hunt his driveway. And
there's a guy and a woman. There's that Hunter. Don't
be stupid, you know he walked out of the house
that they thirty.
Speaker 2: It's some guy bringing his wife home.
Speaker 5: No way, dear Jimmy, on your way, Oh, let me
come in, phill Us.
Speaker 3: Don't be a fool. Alex would kid you.
Speaker 6: Alex, he couldn't break a pane of glass, and I'd
like to have it out with him.
Speaker 2: I won't give you up. I'll get him out of
your life.
Speaker 5: I don't brought him out of my life, but you're
out of it, Jimmy, my boy, come on, I mean it.
You at thirty five, you act like sixteen. Good Night,
phill Us, good night to me.
Speaker 2: You dirty.
Speaker 5: You are not sixteen. You're younger. Use the car if
you want to.
Speaker 2: I'd rather walk.
Speaker 3: You're a privilege. See you around night.
Speaker 1: I am mister Hunter. Oh he officer Joe Miley. Yes, course,
it's almost midnight, mister Hunter. Oh yes, yes it is
five or twelve, Mr, I'm all call no yeah, yeah.
Well he said some guy is gunning for you. I
told mister Small not to worry the police. But that's
our business, mister Hunter. I mean no Kiddingess, some Mexicans
threatened you.
Speaker 2: He's gonna kill me. Joe.
Speaker 1: Well, he can't get away with that, mister Hunter. He
should have had us pick him up. Now he can
get away with it. He doesn't care if you shoot
him down. Oh can you describe him? We'll pick him
up and just ship him out.
Speaker 2: He's clean.
Speaker 1: You couldn't charge him. Well, he said he was going
to carry you. He'll deny that, and I can't prove it.
I'll just have to work this out myself. He don't
seem much worried, mister Hunter, and I don't much care
what happens. Joe, me and Mancuso will keep an eye
on the house, So just don't frighten my wife. She'll
be coming home from a party. Well, she already did.
Some guy dropped her off. Oh I see, well, thank you, Joe.
Speaker 2: Good night.
Speaker 1: How look anyone prowls around here, we'll investigate. Good night.
Speaker 2: I missed a hunder and no lights?
Speaker 1: Tim, Yeah you heard the officer.
Speaker 4: Yeah you uh? You kind of disappoint me, missed Hunter.
Speaker 1: I didn't call the police. Friends of mine did?
Speaker 2: Ah uh?
Speaker 4: Why of that makes me feel better? A cool bird
like you don't pay me.
Speaker 1: I don't have him so far, for reasons of your own.
You decided to kill me, even if it cost you
your own life. Under those circumstances, no one can prevent
you from killing So I accept that.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm.
Speaker 4: Cool, Right that cop, don't worry me. I kill you
maybe he gets me. That's okay.
Speaker 2: Like I said, I got nothing to live for.
Speaker 1: Then, Uh, this is it?
Speaker 2: This is it. I see my wife fell asleep on
the couch. Yeah, she came in half an hour and
go and flop down. He's a beautiful woman.
Speaker 1: Yes, she is beautiful. You were in the house when
she came home. That's why I alone.
Speaker 2: I'm alone. Oh oh you mean r Yes, missus Hunter
or some guy left her at the door.
Speaker 4: She gave him a brush, and she came in the
living room and called your name, Alex. And she twirled
around and slopped down, fell asleep half an hour ago.
Speaker 2: She drunk. Nah, feeling good. That's all I did.
Speaker 4: Get that Jimmy out of your life. Mister Hunting, fourth life.
You said, this is it right?
Speaker 2: Uh, you're the first, mister Hunter. There's twelve of you.
I'll get as many happy as I can. It won't
be much noise.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I've disappointed you toim like you. I don't
care if I die. My only regret is leaving my
beautiful wife. Now, promise me that you won't harm her.
She means more to me than itself. Even if she
wakes up and screams, promise me, Timid, you won't hurt
There's no finer woman on earth. You understand you lost
your own wife.
Speaker 2: A strange twist.
Speaker 1: Alex Hunter has wished his wife dead, but listen to
him glorify her. He faces a man determined to kill him.
That doesn't seem to worry him too much. He's worried
about his wife. Don't harm her if you please, the
very woman he wished dead only hours ago. Alex Hunter
has not spoken earnestly to his intended assassin. Will malice
be added to falsehood? I'll return soon. With Act three,
Alex Hunter faces a gun in the hand of x
convict Tim Crohane. The scene is the living room of
Hunter's house in Evanston, Illinois. Missus Hunter is asleep on
the couch. He dislikes his beautiful wife and he suspects
her of infidelity. Yes, he just told the ex convict
please not to harm his wife. She means more to
me than life itself. Hardly true, a lie in fact?
To what purpose? Is midnight? And as she predicted, Abby
Small can't go to bed.
Speaker 5: I won't sleep until I know that Alex got through
the night safely.
Speaker 1: There his house. Take look safely, Please have an eye
on this. Do you want some pressure?
Speaker 3: No, I'll stay home, Lamb.
Speaker 5: If anything happened, it, well, it's too goolish.
Speaker 2: For me, right right? Do you ever hear of such
a situation?
Speaker 3: I still can't quite believe it.
Speaker 2: I I remember something from college.
Speaker 1: Revenge is a wild kind of justice. So oh yes, yes, yes,
revenge of a revenge of wrong. Putteth the law out
of office? Frances Bacon, I think.
Speaker 3: How did that jump into your head?
Speaker 2: This is Tim Khen. He's out for revenge.
Speaker 1: He kills Hunter, and he does puteth the law out
of office.
Speaker 2: Some word putteth makes sense.
Speaker 1: So now if Hunter's murdered, the law certainly is puteth
out of office.
Speaker 2: It's flouted.
Speaker 1: It's funny. Nineteen seventy five, we think we're civilized, and
a mania gainst loose and takes the law into his
own hands and kills and there is nothing.
Speaker 2: The law can do about it.
Speaker 3: The man's arrested.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, not Cohen hundred told us Kohen
is ready to die like a cobra going after a man.
He kills a man, he doesn't think of being killed himself.
Speaker 2: He doesn't care.
Speaker 1: There's strike without any thought of the consequences.
Speaker 2: There's mind dying if he gets his revenge. Ah, that's right.
There is no defense.
Speaker 1: Against an assassin who is ready to die.
Speaker 3: Poor Alex R's got a death wish.
Speaker 2: She could wring that woman's throat. But a fool he
watched him marry her.
Speaker 3: You remember Laura, Now, don't limb she's gone.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 1: She was a splendid woman. And Alex and Laura HM
an ideal couple. Dead now three years as I often
think you are.
Speaker 2: And how phyllis uh er, I'll I'll walk over Abby, I.
Speaker 3: Wake up, I'll boil some water.
Speaker 2: Fatigue that it's a good idea. I'll be home soon.
Speaker 1: Promise you won't harm my wife to him, look at her.
Phyllis means more to me than life. That's what I
thought about my wife. She died while I was in
a tail. I know, and I'm sorry for you.
Speaker 2: Took the wind out of me. Life became empty.
Speaker 4: And when I find and I hit the cell bars
until my hand's bread That's when I said I'd get
out of there and make all.
Speaker 2: You suffer for setting me up. I understand you know
what by goes.
Speaker 4: Me bygones when you're talking about a wife who died
because you wasn't there to look after her.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm going to kids.
Speaker 1: I know that him and I don't care just so
you don't hurt my wife.
Speaker 2: Now that's that's not right. I do care.
Speaker 1: I think of all the years ahead with Phyllis.
Speaker 2: Wonderful years, and I do care. I miss those years,
the future with her.
Speaker 1: If anything happened to her and I was alive, I
I don't know what I'd do. I couldn't face it,
I really couldn't. I'd walk around in the daze. I'd
end up in a sanitarium.
Speaker 4: But and she written to her and don't make a mistake,
I'll kill her. And then you know you wouldn't at
his door, Oh I.
Speaker 2: Missed Hunter, just checking out. Oh thanks, Thanks Joe. We
were just going to bed.
Speaker 1: Look, you can relax now. We picked up a guy
parked in a driveway a few houses away. Missus Deets
noticed he was parked in the moors driveway and uh
called the station. He said he was just uh turning around.
Man Cousto took him in for questioning. You know, maybe
he's the guy who's gunning for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well thanks Joe.
Speaker 1: Uh now you can sleep right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: That's okay. I'll be hanging around. Then, I did not.
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 2: Uh you give me an idea? Still I did? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you you been pretty cool all along until I
said I'd kill her. And you don't you harm my wife?
It's more like it you scared on the plane. He
was mighty cool in downtown on Michele Street. When I
talked with you after you came out of your office cool.
Speaker 2: I couldn't figure you.
Speaker 4: He didn't seem to care that you was a dead man.
Maybe you don't care. Maybe you don't care about anything
except her. He just said, if anything happened to her,
you'd end up in the fronty house him. I want
you to suffer, miss Damer.
Speaker 2: It's easy.
Speaker 4: I'll wipe you out, but I guess there's only one
way to make you suffer.
Speaker 2: Her pleased him. Please don't harm my wife. Twenty years
in the pan.
Speaker 4: Miss I suffered until I was almost crazy. I want
you to suffer, and I know how to make your suffer.
Speaker 1: Tom, I'd gone Alice, Hey, don't move like m.
Speaker 3: Who is he?
Speaker 6: Tim?
Speaker 2: Tim?
Speaker 1: I don't care about me, But don't kill an innocent,
defenseless woman.
Speaker 4: Kill But he is going to kill me, yes, because
then he'll suffer the way I've suffered.
Speaker 2: You're crazy to say where you are one moving together?
Speaker 3: This is crazy? Who is that load? To take hers?
Speaker 1: The man I sent to prison years ago? He's up
for revenge.
Speaker 2: If I kid you, he'll suffer as long as he lives.
A wife means more to a man than anything he owns.
Speaker 3: He said that about me.
Speaker 1: Yes, I said it, and I meant it.
Speaker 2: Life without you, I'm off fed.
Speaker 5: Alex, You're as crazy as he is me. I mean
more to you than anything else, more than your money
and the house, and your stuffy friends and.
Speaker 3: Your square behavior.
Speaker 5: There is no love lost between me and my husband.
Whatever your name is, no like he is, won't worse him.
Speaker 2: Please Lord, that gun you mean Aleck?
Speaker 5: You mean that he really intends to kill me?
Speaker 2: Do you? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Why why you murder me? You'll be doing him a favor.
He hates me.
Speaker 5: He hates me because I'm alive and beautiful, and he's
not sure of me.
Speaker 3: He's jealous and it's eating him up.
Speaker 5: He doesn't want me, but he doesn't want anyone else
to have me. Can't you understand that he's got your brainwashed?
Speaker 3: I love my wife and I die for her. That
is a lie. It's a lie. He loves only himself.
Speaker 5: He wishes me dead. Don't you under stand?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 3: Lord, can't you feel fast?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Good, that's a nice try.
Speaker 4: The more you say, what a rotten marriage you God,
the more I admire you, the more I know how much.
Speaker 2: He means to you.
Speaker 1: Please listen to reason. Murdering my wife from me or
both of us? What happiness could that bring to you?
If you kill us, you've signed your.
Speaker 2: Own death warrant. Jim, Please don't do it. Let us live. Look,
I'll help you.
Speaker 1: I promise you've got a good life ahead of you yet.
But once you pull that trigger, your life is into two.
Speaker 4: Okay, Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Place place he I did?
Speaker 1: I got it?
Speaker 2: Mister Hunter? Is this a guy?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, that's the man Tim Coahen, A dirty murderer.
Speaker 1: I'm glad he didn't get you. I'm not jo I'm
not he murdered my wife.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to say, mister Hunter. You will
you are right? Yeah? Yeah, I guess so, Joe.
Speaker 1: See, he went out the back way I said stop,
and he fired at me. When I opened up, Lucky
I was on foot. Mancuso took the other guy to
the station. I I'm awful, sorry, mister hunter.
Speaker 2: She was so beautiful. I well, you'll excuse me. Yeah, sure, sure,
thank thank you, Joe Alex. He's here, mister small. Is
it alright? Yeah, yeah, he's all right. I I got
the guy.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank the Lord, Alex Alex.
Speaker 2: I heard the siren. He killed Phyllis. Ye what Phyllis?
The siren was the ambulance. They just took her away.
Speaker 1: Oh no, I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: I I can't believe it that it's true.
Speaker 1: And I don't understand why that there was that mania
I shoot Phyllis wanted.
Speaker 2: To make me suffer.
Speaker 1: They thought the threat of robbing me of my life
would terrify me.
Speaker 2: It didn't. I didn't ever much look forward to I
probably Tim.
Speaker 1: Kahane I was too cool about having a death sentence
hanging over my head, and that bothered him. I see
when I walked into the house, he was here, hiding
in the dark.
Speaker 2: Phyllis was asleep on the couch. But why why shoot Phyllis?
Because Tim thought that a wife is a man's most
precious possession. I begin to see, do you? I'm afraid
I do, Alex.
Speaker 1: What what did you say to him? When Lieutenant of
Malie came to the door, Tim told me that if
I had tipped a mallee off, he'd shoot both Phyllis
and me.
Speaker 2: I begged not to er, And when you got rid
of O. Malley, you continued to beg he is that right?
Why should he kill an innocent person?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Indeed, even though the innocent person was a woman, your
jealousy had lent you to loath. You must be relieved, Alex,
I am you misled the poor fool into believing that
your life was out soul. This would be bettern, desolate ended,
that's what he concluded. Ordinarily it had been right, wouldn't they?
But after what you told me, and I be earlier tonight,
do you realize what you have done? Yes, you've committed murder,
Tim Cohane, committed murder and paid the price for it,
but you managed it.
Speaker 2: My life was at stake and you didn't give a
damn about hers.
Speaker 1: I must admit that that is so m It's horrible,
and you're free.
Speaker 2: That's more horrible, still free indeed?
Speaker 1: Okay, Alex, don't you realize what you've done? Have you
no sense of having arranged a murder? Don't you feel anything?
I feel like having a drink.
Speaker 2: But you've caused a life to be cut off. Mine
has been preserved.
Speaker 1: I'll lead the tears to Jim Marquette and her other conquests.
Speaker 2: I'm free of all that now.
Speaker 1: I I'm sorry for you, Alex Humpy. I'll drink alone,
and I'll toast Tim Kohane for giving me back my
freedom and my sanity.
Speaker 2: Good night, Alex.
Speaker 1: There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so potent
as the conscience that dwells in every man's breast. Alex
Hunter made an unfortunate marriage. His young wife, Phyllis, was
almost too beautiful to be true. She died indirectly murdered
by her husband's would be assassin.
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Speaker 1: One of the sleepless nights, when Hunter stares at the
ceiling overhead and at the moving shadows weighing in the moonlight,
I really murdered Phyllis. I murdered my wife. Tim Cohene's dead.
She's dead, and I'm alone. He faces a lifetime of
shadows on the ceiling, a lifetime of his conscience gnawing
away at him.
Speaker 2: For a man of morals, that is true suffering.
Speaker 1: If I know anything about human nature, Tim Cohen got
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