Speaker 1: Come in.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to Mystery Theater. I am hymen Brown.
Speaker 1: Are you one of.
Speaker 2: Those who believe that the voices of those you love
can reach you from beyond the grave? And if you do,
should you summon them up? Or is it wiser to
leave the dead past to bury its past? I offer
no answer. You decide for yourself on the basis of
this story of men who flirt with death all their lives.
Speaker 3: And he catches jut if he can keep her on
the track. He made that curve all right.
Speaker 4: He's catching up on the straightaway and he's going to
try to know what is it.
Speaker 5: It's the same pattern.
Speaker 6: That killed my Pomyes, okay, yes, Pulley room at enough
speed if he just keeps his nerve all Judas Wallet,
he chickened out the tamp.
Speaker 7: We will trying to come back inside, but the car.
Speaker 5: Won't hold the Oh, good lord you.
Speaker 2: Our mystery drama The Gray Ghosts was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Betsy Palmer.
I'll be back shortly without one. All of us have
private ghosts of one sort or another, remembered terrors that
lurk and shadows deep within us or specters that lean
over our shoulder, cools that haunt us by day or night.
Psychiatry wouldn't be a very profitable area of medical practice
if they didn't.
Speaker 8: Can I get you another pillow, missus Richards?
Speaker 4: No thanks, or a blank? I don't feel like sleeping
long night.
Speaker 8: It'll be four and a half hours before we reach Rome,
maybe longer. You can't get around his head when I really.
Speaker 4: Don't want anything.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 8: Well, if you're sure there's nothing I can get you up?
Speaker 4: Maybe a drink? No, unless you happen to have one
labeled guaranteed peace of mind.
Speaker 8: I wish I could provide it. I'm sorry, missus Richards.
Speaker 4: Even that really doesn't belong to me.
Speaker 8: My husband's name, Oh dear, you lost him.
Speaker 4: In a manner of speaking, He didn't die, just a divorce.
Oh that should make me gay, shouldn't it? I beg
your pardon. Oh just a bad joke, the gay divorce?
Say right, isn't that the stereotype? Well I'm not. I'm
one of life's losers, and it seems to be a
habit that I can't shake.
Speaker 8: I just couldn't figure you for a loser. Not anyone
is beautifully dressed, and it's lovely looking.
Speaker 4: Beauty is only skin deep, and the clothes are someone
else's design, not mine. That's another one of my failures.
Speaker 8: If you want to talk, I'm technically on a break
and I'm a good listening.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. I can't see your name, Angie, Angie, thanks,
but I think I'd just soon be alone.
Speaker 8: Well, if you need me, just.
Speaker 4: D I don't need you, Angie. I don't need Ken,
and most of all, I don't need myself. What I need.
Speaker 1: Is oh, duchess A long time? No see Dad, not anymore?
Speaker 9: Always always when you call on me, I have to
show up.
Speaker 10: Running out again.
Speaker 4: You mean I'm Ken? Well I did that months ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I was reno.
Speaker 11: You didn't get over to vegasn't see any of my
own gambling money up.
Speaker 4: I stayed my legal time and got out of town fast.
Why Dutch, I couldn't cut it Dad. I like him
too much to be a drag on him. Now, before
there were children and we got trapped, I thought I
ought to get out, that's all did He wanted no?
But then you see he never would face the truth.
Why he married a loser. I didn't want to make
him want.
Speaker 11: Too, Duchess, Why do you call yourself a loser all
the time?
Speaker 4: Come on, Dad, what else am I? I took Mom
away from you just by.
Speaker 3: Her having.
Speaker 1: I try to make up for her the best.
Speaker 4: Way I could could I have ever asked for more.
You were it, my son, my mom, the center of
it all, Dad, And not only just my father and
my friend and my special boyfriend, but but you were
somebody Chips to bell right up there with Jackie Stewart,
stood Moss and Graham Hill. What do you think if
you was like in those last few indies, the two
that you won, even the one you lost, except.
Speaker 10: Except the one I really, the one you should forget.
Speaker 4: You can't.
Speaker 1: You must took me right out.
Speaker 7: Of this world.
Speaker 4: No, I can't shut out the memory of you passing
Alex High on the turn, and the way he drove
you off and through the rail, and I can see
the car in the air, spinning and turning and then crashing.
Speaker 6: And the sheet of flame that that sheet.
Speaker 12: Of Sorry, duchess, knock it off for the real chance
that you must take You don't win them all, just
Scott remembering, shut.
Speaker 1: It out of your mind. Let me lie at easy
in my grave.
Speaker 4: I can't. You were my whole world. You were never loser, Dad.
I've never been able to believe it really happened. You
never died for me.
Speaker 1: Why won't you accept it?
Speaker 4: I know you're dead, but I can't accept it. And
once I lost you, well, I became the perpetual loser.
Then I met Ken, sweet Ken, and he was kind
and gentle, and he made me a buyer. I thought
maybe that was the way out. But Ken fell in
love with me, so I married him, and I thought
maybe that was my way out. Well it wasn't. Why
don't you Because I couldn't offer him enough in return
for what he wanted to give me. He couldn't measure
up to you, Dad, So I'm running. Where do you
ever play? Pin the tail on the donkey? Well? I
picked Rome on a buyer's trip. I was once kind
of happy there, and as happy as I can be
since you went out like a shooting star.
Speaker 1: You know, Freud is a five bag dot. Yes, but
what are you gonna find me?
Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe enough courage to keep myself from
swallowing those sleeping pools that I've been saving up.
Speaker 10: You wouldn't do anything stupid like that.
Speaker 5: I'm not so sure.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry to bother you, missus Richards, but we're running
into some turbulence. Will you please fasten your seat belt?
Speaker 4: Well? What is it? Are you all right?
Speaker 8: You look as if you'd seen a ghost.
Speaker 4: Not seeing it? I'm sorry. What did you say? Oh,
don't be alarmed. It's nothing serious.
Speaker 8: But we're running into a bad storm, so please fasten
your belt and excuse me.
Speaker 4: The pilot reports rough weather. Fasten your seatbelt, pet tad.
Then maybe this would be the best way, just to
go out as you did and have it all over with.
Speaker 8: Well, missus Richards, here we are safe and sound.
Speaker 4: Oh I can't believe I'm here in Rome? Do you
have friends waiting for nobody? I'm flying solo?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 4: Well, where you're staying? Just don't tell us above? The
Spanish step seem better, you know.
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 8: Yes, Well you won't be flying solo very long, not
between Italian men.
Speaker 4: Oh and being a gay divorcee. You think the word
would travel that fast? Andie?
Speaker 8: Well, in Italy the name of the game is Amori.
Speaker 4: But it is up to me whether or not I
want to play it. Sure, it isn't that if you
want to go along with it. I guess sure beats
skeletons in the closets. Three the dry out of it there, Angie,
And maybe it might be a lot better than ghost
spats in the dophy, I guess.
Speaker 6: Senora Richards, how do you like your first night in Romes?
Speaker 4: Just beautiful? Say your vassal, and I love your restaurant.
Speaker 6: Oh well, I hope that is for the music or
anything besides me.
Speaker 4: Oh, I promise you it's nothing but jet lag. I
haven't slept for nearly thirty hours or something. I am beat, but.
Speaker 1: Of course you are.
Speaker 3: I shall take you home subito, to bed.
Speaker 4: Oh, I am not quite sure how to accept.
Speaker 6: That invitation tonight without this lightest suspicion at face value.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow we shall begin our romance.
Speaker 4: You know what are you suggesting for tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Well, I have my car. The weather is promised to
be perfect.
Speaker 6: Let me drive you up the coast and show you
my Italy and my Lord.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid I'll be a disappointment.
Speaker 3: Signora.
Speaker 6: You have had much unhappiness. Your moltissimo re state. That
is not right for a woman so beautiful.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm eh, What is it that wait, you there,
he looked just that.
Speaker 3: No, never mind, but you looked as though you had
seen a goo.
Speaker 4: Well it's a habit I seem to have fallen into lately.
I really think I'm just too tired. It makes sense.
Won't you take me home?
Speaker 3: If you will promise we'll meet tomorrow or lunch?
Speaker 9: All right, but.
Speaker 4: Late, I've got to sleep, and sleep till I get
all these cup webs out of my head.
Speaker 6: So you will not be in wrong long, missus Richards.
Speaker 4: I don't know, Senor bas So. It depends what my mood.
I suppose not a very good one. I'm afraid.
Speaker 6: I'm all.
Speaker 9: It kills and it heals.
Speaker 1: I have been sorry to hear about you and your
husband and the divorce.
Speaker 3: Well how did you know, oh, Senor Carrot say, from
whose firm you used to buy?
Speaker 1: As I told me. That is why he.
Speaker 6: Introduced that you must stay long enough in Italy for
me to bring you back the sunshine where you are
making a very good start.
Speaker 4: It's clouding up.
Speaker 6: Looks like rain, non important, a shower, that's all.
Speaker 4: It's getting very dark, and you do drive very fast.
Speaker 6: I am an Italian and I have the car to
do it.
Speaker 4: What time is it?
Speaker 1: Does it matter?
Speaker 4: I would like to get back to Rome in the daylight.
Speaker 10: Send your vasso, Widow.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure we know each other well enough final
Caterina or may I say Kate.
Speaker 4: If you wish and widow is easier than send your vaso. Okay,
I think maybe we'd better head back for Rome.
Speaker 3: Ah, do we really want?
Speaker 4: And you're not going to start all this over again?
Speaker 7: And every opportunity, didn't.
Speaker 4: You ever get any ribus?
Speaker 6: It happens, But then I do have many affairs.
Speaker 7: Of the heart.
Speaker 4: Also, we'll score one for honesty. But I do think
we should get back. It's getting quite missed.
Speaker 3: So there's no honey. I can have you back in
the room.
Speaker 6: In forty minutes sixty miles eighty kilometers Mia Charisma. You
are riding in a Ferrari ten or twenty five one
hundred see see displacement. When I have liters, nothing can
beat this car. When I let her out or her sister,
whichever one I race at Monza. That's the track outside Milano.
Speaker 3: Two weeks from now. Will you come and see me win?
Speaker 9: Huh?
Speaker 10: That's my guest.
Speaker 4: Well, that depends on how gentla host you turn out
to be today.
Speaker 6: Okay, can you blame me for trying so hard too?
Speaker 12: Ah?
Speaker 9: What is it?
Speaker 3: Look behind us?
Speaker 4: Another car?
Speaker 3: So oh but what a car?
Speaker 4: It is not a little strange trying to see enormous missed?
What is it?
Speaker 7: Who knows?
Speaker 1: Homemade?
Speaker 7: You find them.
Speaker 3: All over Italy.
Speaker 6: It is our other love affair women in ki or
sometimes the other way.
Speaker 3: This pisan, he is mad trying.
Speaker 6: To race with my Ferrari and me, yes, poor Paisa,
And he's coming closer and closer this mule track I
turned off on ka diablough it winds like a snake here.
Speaker 1: I had a straight.
Speaker 9: Away, No straighta.
Speaker 3: Now we show him our heels, and where do.
Speaker 4: You keep your heels? Widow?
Speaker 5: And your radiator cap?
Speaker 9: But what do you mean just if you're.
Speaker 4: Going to show them to your pies on, that's where
they better be. He's going to pass you, not only
for sibly, but there.
Speaker 8: He goes.
Speaker 9: A widow.
Speaker 4: You're slowing down and I thought you never gave up.
Speaker 3: Well you hear what's happened to my car?
Speaker 4: Oh serious?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: No, she is doing the shop to be taken down
on Monday. She needs an overhaul. I shouldn't have left
her full out In this condition, now I am.
Speaker 3: Filled with how do you say, superstition? Did we really see.
Speaker 4: That the car it passed us? Of course?
Speaker 3: Who wasn't driving in a crash?
Speaker 4: Elmint goggles? How can anyone tell?
Speaker 9: Eh? What is it?
Speaker 4: I don't know, just a sudden cold feeling that came over.
Speaker 6: Me, that it might not have been a car at all,
just to some phantom of the storm, presen a ghost.
Speaker 2: Was it a phantom car? And if it is, who
is the racer who drove it?
Speaker 1: Was it a deterrent to.
Speaker 2: Senor Basso's carefully planned seduction or was it part of
his general plan to win Kate? Or at least, as
we used to say more politely, have favors Mystery Theater
will return shortly with Act two.
Speaker 4: Whatever strange vehicle that.
Speaker 2: Passed him so unhappily, whatever it turns out to be,
for the moment, it is not occupying Guido's mind. His
thoughts are far from the supernatural. No, something more natural
and obvious is on Guido's mind, has been ever since
he met Kate, and he little expects to see the
ghost car again.
Speaker 4: Do you think you can coax it back to round?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: I could not think of it.
Speaker 6: But we are coming into Corbette or a little down
right ahead we can garage are there for the night.
Speaker 4: Won't they have a mechanic to touch.
Speaker 1: A mere bombina?
Speaker 3: Oh no, I phoned to roam for my own.
Speaker 4: How long would that take just to overnight? Oh? And
this Corvietta. Of course there is no railroad. I suppose,
no buses to Rome.
Speaker 6: No, no, just the village when there is a delightful
little pancione, a charming little inn that is run by
an older friend of.
Speaker 4: My sie, I guess I do owe you an apology, Guido,
you do for what? Well? Back there on the road,
I was kidding you about never giving up. I guess
I should have known better. You never do, do you, Kate?
Speaker 3: I am a man and.
Speaker 6: You wish to register the picher Come sta, Senora.
Speaker 8: Brand stop being mo so grassy, senior boss, nice to
see you, and the Senora prefer a rouma de garden
or upstairs?
Speaker 4: Neither? Okay? Two single rooms, one upstairs the other down,
and I'll take the ground floor.
Speaker 8: But I do not understand sor it's quite simple.
Speaker 4: I am not technically anyway a sennor I'm a single girl,
and I guess I'm a miss me.
Speaker 3: She means that we are not married orrah.
Speaker 8: A million parts, and I understand, and so does the sor.
Speaker 6: I hope I was only a joke in Kate, please
forgive me for all this inconvenience.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry this had to happen.
Speaker 1: Believe me.
Speaker 7: I don't don't know what.
Speaker 4: Don't believe you for a moment that you're sorry.
Speaker 3: Oh huh, you are all right, And I will.
Speaker 4: Tell you something else. I think what I think you're
a heel senor basso?
Speaker 3: Would I deny it? Why don't you sign the register?
Speaker 4: Kate?
Speaker 3: And then the padrona will show you to your room, and.
Speaker 6: While you freshen up, I will arrange for a dinner
with wine and candlelight. And I will hope that when
you come back you will be well, you will be
more forgiving, and I shall phone my mechanic in Rome
to be here first thing in the morning to fix
the car.
Speaker 4: Okay, if you mean make a phone call.
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh, I am not forgiven.
Speaker 4: Well, I like to do a little thinking about that first.
Speaker 6: I will live on hope that you will be generous.
Speaker 7: A scuzy the.
Speaker 8: Scene how to say the mess as a no luggage.
Speaker 4: The only possible baggage you see is me. Now where
did the signor leave his car? At the garage right
across the streets? Is there a mechanic there?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: But the best you want? But if you would care
to see your.
Speaker 4: Room, I think i'd rather see Giovanni first.
Speaker 8: But of course, shall I tell this signor you are there?
Speaker 4: Well, if you don't mind any messages from me, I'd
like him to get by himself. Oh, yes, dad. If
he knew whose daughter he was messing around with, he
wouldn't be so smart.
Speaker 7: Giovanni see on the moment, thought that a boy. Hey kay, fine, Jomi,
something wrong? Oh not in your life?
Speaker 4: Well then why these?
Speaker 3: Oh American too?
Speaker 6: Hey lady, I haven't seen anything like you since the
Miss America pageant nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 4: Well thank you, I feel like a wine. Was that
a good year?
Speaker 6: All the best, every one a winner, But not one
could hold a candle to you.
Speaker 4: And here I just about decided that you were all
American yourself, Giovanni.
Speaker 3: Ah Joel dou, I am American born and bred. There
it's Mike, you know.
Speaker 6: You sound as though you miss it every minute of
every day, and why.
Speaker 4: Do you stay here like this and that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, when my mom died, nothing would do, but my
pop had to come home to the old country.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 3: That's for laughs in a way.
Speaker 6: Why Oh, my pop was born in little Italy, you know,
Mulberry Street.
Speaker 3: In New York.
Speaker 6: He didn't even speak Italian as good as I do.
But the old ones say, get kinky ideas. Sometimes you
see this place right here, this is where my mom
was born.
Speaker 4: Not very kinky. I can understand why he wanted to
see the town.
Speaker 6: Sure, when I went along, I made the trip back
with him myself, because Valley was pretty sick and I
knew he wanted to die here.
Speaker 3: One thing led to another.
Speaker 6: I stayed on, had to make a living to keep
us going. So I got the gas station in the
shop and became a grease monkey in this little town.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, in this little town. I was stuck.
Speaker 6: Come on, I didn't mean to break down and tell
you the story of my life.
Speaker 3: It's just a talking American again. Feels so good anyway,
No more running off of the mouth. What can I
do for you, man?
Speaker 4: I just wanted to ask you about the Ferrari that
you just gassed up.
Speaker 6: Oh this baby, Well, nothing wrong I can see. Oh yeah, yeah,
a little over choked.
Speaker 4: Oh that figures. You mean someone pulled the choke out.
Speaker 3: Sure, sure, flooded the carburetor.
Speaker 4: To make her sound as if she was breaking down.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, if the guy handled it right.
Speaker 4: Couldn't have been accidental to it.
Speaker 6: Oh, not on a car like this unless well, look,
I don't know what kind of a driver your husband is.
Speaker 4: And then he's not my husband. Signor Guido Baso.
Speaker 6: Guido Baso, the billionaire sportsman, a racing driver.
Speaker 3: It's oh boy, holy Mac.
Speaker 6: In that case, it could only have been deliberate, like
he must have had some reason to he.
Speaker 3: Oh like that?
Speaker 4: Huh yeah like that. He had a cute little notion
that we could register here at the Ponzioni, which I
don't go for. So have you got a car?
Speaker 3: Have I got a car?
Speaker 6: Lady follow me now, I warn you when I unveil her.
She may not look like much, but she is far out.
I mean, there is nothing in Europe to touch her.
Speaker 3: Oh there she is, ma'am. I call her lot Bellissima.
Speaker 4: The great ghost. Eh what you passed us on the
road a while back? So fast? That we weren't sure
whether you were real or a mirale.
Speaker 3: Oh she's for real.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, I figured this was the Ferrari I blew by,
but I never figured I was kicking dirt on Guido Barsoho.
Speaker 4: Will you take me back to Rome? I'll pay you,
of course.
Speaker 6: Oh no, forget it. I'm closing up anyway. What business
is there now?
Speaker 7: Besides?
Speaker 3: How often does a plain Joe get a chance to place?
Speaker 6: Sir galahad, huh?
Speaker 7: What do you want to leave?
Speaker 4: As of? Five minutes before I even ask?
Speaker 6: You are on your way right now, ma'am climb In.
Speaker 4: The name is missus Richards. But as long as we're
going awol together, why not make it? Kate?
Speaker 6: Okay, Okay, Kate, but I I feel a little bit shaky.
Speaker 7: Why gweedo Baso?
Speaker 9: Holy cow?
Speaker 4: What are you afraid of that he might catch up
with us?
Speaker 5: Lady?
Speaker 6: I mean, Kate, not while you're riding these white horses.
Two hundred and fifty a month of that hood plus
a special injection carburetor which makes all the difference A
little gimmick of my own, you know, I call it
the raw Special.
Speaker 4: Ross Is that your second name?
Speaker 7: Rossini?
Speaker 3: Before it got cut down. Now listen to this chorus.
Speaker 6: Sing the only thing faster is a jet plane, and
you can't run them on the ground.
Speaker 7: Guido Basso.
Speaker 3: Huh oh, I'll bet he popped the cork when I
passed him.
Speaker 6: It's gonna make him a hell of a lot matter
that you passed him up.
Speaker 4: Why are we slowing down?
Speaker 6: Well, even Italy he has a couple of speed laws.
We're already on the outskirts of Rome.
Speaker 4: It was so wonderful, just like old times, saving on
the window. Oh, she's a wonderful car. Joe, just ate
up the road?
Speaker 5: Do you race it?
Speaker 7: Are you kidding?
Speaker 4: How would you like to race her in a couple
of weeks and months?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: No, no doubt. How much would it cost?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 6: Entry fee, pitt crew replacements, pots, travel expense. What's the
sense making a list? I know by heart around seven
or eight million lira bottom.
Speaker 4: Lines about twelve thousand.
Speaker 6: Dollars if you can guess the exchange any given day,
I mean, what's the diff It could be eight billion.
Speaker 4: She's not for racing, Well, then why did you build it? Huh?
Speaker 3: Is there any answer for that? I don't know.
Speaker 7: I love cars.
Speaker 6: She's all I've had since my pop finally cashed in.
Speaker 3: I'm just playing in love with her.
Speaker 7: I guess that's all it holds me here.
Speaker 3: I should go home.
Speaker 4: And what would happen to Bellissima?
Speaker 6: I guess I guess I'd sell it? Does un Rich
dilatant like Basso, except by now he's too mad at
me to buy.
Speaker 4: After all, you have told me you would sell him
this car? Or why not? It's too much a part
of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's been done before.
Speaker 6: I'm in debt up to my ears. I could pay
off and have enough to let me sneak back into
the USA.
Speaker 4: I can't let you do that pull over under the
trees apart.
Speaker 9: Joe, what's the point?
Speaker 4: You know, it's not very flattering if you refuse my request.
Speaker 3: Oh put it that way? How can I refuse?
Speaker 4: You mustn't sell this car?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: Because I think if you did, you'd be selling your
own soldier.
Speaker 6: Oh look, Kate, let's leave it, Leah. I mean, even
if I had cash, who's gonna drive.
Speaker 7: I've got credentials.
Speaker 6: Besides, I gotta be in a pit to handle and
baby this lady through.
Speaker 4: You know, Well, then we'll find another driver.
Speaker 6: Oh, where you know what a racing driver is. He
ain't built a blood, nerves, only guts and reflexes an iron.
He doesn't think, He only reacts. He's got risks of steel,
eyes like a fly, and nothing but the will to wind.
And you know how he's made. I should he isn't.
He's born in a race like Mansa. You won't find
a driver who's worth a dam within a thousand miles of.
Speaker 3: Italy, who isn't already tied up?
Speaker 6: So where else do I find such a guy?
Speaker 4: Just give me a moment to think.
Speaker 9: Okay, okay, okay, duchess, how can I help?
Speaker 4: You can't? But Alex could.
Speaker 1: Alex he's never driven.
Speaker 4: Since since the accident. I know.
Speaker 1: He dropped out of the game. Where would you find him?
Speaker 4: I know where he is. I saw him last night,
Dad in Rome. He's a waiter. He ducked when he
saw me.
Speaker 10: Alessandro called a waiter, not more.
Speaker 4: Than he deserves after what he did to you. But
he can drive?
Speaker 10: Will you stop blaming coffee for me? What happened was
that head is your day?
Speaker 4: Are you sure he didn't panic or deliberately drive you
into the wall on that term? Why did he quit them.
Speaker 1: We have to rake over the old ashes. Let it go, Kate, William.
We're well out of it. Why try to get back here?
Speaker 4: Dad? You said I've been running away from things that
I'm afraid to turn around and face life. I think
it's time that I did, and this is just as
good a place to start as any.
Speaker 10: He's gonna run into some heavy door.
Speaker 4: Baby, I still have most of what you left me.
Speaker 10: That'll take most of it dead.
Speaker 4: I am a gambler, just like my old man, and
I'll win it back if you'll help me. When I
talked to Corfy coax him to come back to driving.
Speaker 1: Oh it won't be easy.
Speaker 11: Look, Kate, maybe you better let sleeping dogs lie.
Speaker 4: He's talking about dogs. I'm talking about horses, Dad, the
kind you used to ride. Maybe not four thousand cc
class yet or the big persons. This is a sports
car racing two and a half leaders. But it's a beginning,
and Joe will go on to build bigger and better
cars and get bigger and better sponsors, and I, well,
I want to help him buy that future.
Speaker 10: And what about your own?
Speaker 4: Well, maybe I can prove to myself I'm of use
to someone again and then I can find mine.
Speaker 11: I don't know, Duders, you don't know what you're asking,
and you wouldn't let me down, would you.
Speaker 10: That's the whole trouble, Dutchers.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid I might have.
Speaker 2: To Well, now that's a rather uncooperative attitude for a
sofar friendly or should I say, sympathetic specter. Why would
that presence from beyond the grave not be eager to
help the daughter he wants so desperately to find herself again?
Does he know something about his old friend Coffee?
Speaker 9: We don't know, mystery.
Speaker 2: Theater will return shortly with Act three. Soft Italian moonlight
filters down through the trees, sending a dancing pattern of
light and shadow across Kate's face as she lies back
in the car with her eyes closed. Sitting beside her, Joe.
Joe watches with a small frown of puzzlement. Has she
fallen asleep? Or is it just a trick of rippling
shadows that makes it seem as if perhaps she were
talking to someone? Then suddenly she opens her eyes.
Speaker 4: I know where to get your driver?
Speaker 3: Where?
Speaker 7: Who?
Speaker 4: Well? Someone I saw in a restaurant the night before last,
a waiter, a waiter named Alessandro Coffee Alessandra.
Speaker 7: Oh, scrub it, Kate.
Speaker 3: He hasn't driven in all the four years.
Speaker 4: I think we can get him.
Speaker 7: You don't understand.
Speaker 6: There was an accident at the Indie speed Trials four
years ago.
Speaker 7: His best friend got killed.
Speaker 4: I know he is my father.
Speaker 6: Ships to Bill was your father? But I thought you
said Richards. That's right, that's my married name. Oh and
unfortunately my divorced one. Oh does that bring out the
Italian in you?
Speaker 4: Joe? Give you any ideas none.
Speaker 7: I mightn't have had before.
Speaker 4: Well cool, I told you this is a partnership and
it's strictly business partnership hours. I'm going to put up
the money so that you can Enterlissima at Momza.
Speaker 3: Oh hey, now wait a minute.
Speaker 4: I raising money, Joe. It's the money my dad left me.
Speaker 7: Look, I told you what it's gonna cost.
Speaker 4: If we can hold it to ten thousand, I know
I can swing it. We can save on two items,
the pit boss and the driver.
Speaker 6: Look me, you god, but you honestly think you can
get coffee to drive.
Speaker 4: I think he can be persuaded by you, by me.
Speaker 6: You know something, I wouldn't be surprised if you can,
and we have a deal. You get Corfee to drive
La Belissima and you got fifty percent of the car.
Speaker 4: And Joe, it's so good to see a man come
to life again.
Speaker 6: Listen, we race under any color you choose. I like
the gray ghost just as she is the gray Ghost.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's great. Let's call it that from now on.
Speaker 6: Oh brother, I'm as happy as a kid on the
last day of school.
Speaker 4: Now you get me back to Rome so I can
talk to Corfee.
Speaker 13: Hello, Alex, So you did the recognize of me the
other night. Yes, I tried to avoid you. Why are
you coming back.
Speaker 4: I want to talk to you about the war?
Speaker 13: No, not here, Hi, I don't want to talk about
your heart.
Speaker 4: He may have to be a part of it.
Speaker 13: Hey, go get excused by the head way. We can
walk by the river. What do I think of Bussos Ferrari? Superb?
Speaker 4: And what would you say if I told you I
know a car the past widow is? If he were
standing still, I would.
Speaker 13: Say if he's the best car in Europe?
Speaker 4: Wo, how would you like to drive it at Mansa?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 13: No, I never drive again, not after what they happened.
Speaker 4: To blame yourself for that, don't fuel dudgess. Well I did,
but I don't know Alex. Now that it's fine enough away,
I think if if the positions had been reversed, well,
wouldn't have dead done the same thing cut him off
from passing on the outside drive into the rail, and that.
Speaker 13: Is what everyone saw happened. And so a friend is dead,
and I who would have died before him, and to
blame we leave it at that. I swore I would
never drive again, not even.
Speaker 4: If I tell you that I'm half owner of the
car and we have no one else to drive it.
Don't you owe me that at least for my father?
Speaker 13: Forget I must be bad.
Speaker 7: I am out of condition.
Speaker 13: My leaf exis two weeks.
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 13: I not know the car completely, but oh let's if
you ask me, I shall have drive. But Keith, he's
a will to be a miracle if I got the
window for.
Speaker 5: You, She said, we need Joe. He's winning.
Speaker 7: You can't believe her first race.
Speaker 5: He's locked the field at.
Speaker 7: Least twine the accept for Basso.
Speaker 4: He's holding off the full lap behind straight with us.
Speaker 3: Hold up, baby, hold up, I.
Speaker 9: Can't see what is it?
Speaker 4: Gets a bad fresh on the far turned not Ali,
not off.
Speaker 3: He barely missed him.
Speaker 6: He damn he hit something the off front wheel hit down.
Speaker 3: We'll know in a minute.
Speaker 6: Non't know.
Speaker 7: The wheels out of line. He's signaled all right, boys,
he's coming in next lap of repair.
Speaker 6: Cut off two spare wheels and crabbed a gas line.
Speaker 13: Eh, what's the traveler jewel?
Speaker 7: It's maybe just a wheel. We'll have to jerk it
to see.
Speaker 13: Suppose it isn't the axle.
Speaker 7: When then we pat it?
Speaker 3: O 's not the wheel?
Speaker 7: Oh heavy? And he does not sure? She up the
bedroom free?
Speaker 13: Who is not going out?
Speaker 1: You're not up?
Speaker 3: You see who that was?
Speaker 5: God?
Speaker 1: No, he's been up.
Speaker 4: Stand canny? Can he catch him? Jo?
Speaker 6: If you can keep her on the track, He ain't
that curve all right.
Speaker 4: And he's catching up on the straightaway. You can try
to know what is it? But that's the same pattern that.
Speaker 9: Kills my father.
Speaker 7: It's okay, kay, it's okay.
Speaker 6: He has plenty of room and enough speed if he
just holds his nerves.
Speaker 4: Who cut us free?
Speaker 5: Shook him up?
Speaker 9: The cans back.
Speaker 7: Inside, But she won't hold it.
Speaker 9: Oh my god, she's gone.
Speaker 3: Well I suppose we have to go in and see
him Alex.
Speaker 4: Of course he's hurt.
Speaker 6: He Oh, don't worry, don't worry. I've talked to the doctors.
Nothing serious. He got out lucky.
Speaker 3: We took the fall thanks to him.
Speaker 6: What does that mean when you saw what happened? He
chickened out, He let Baso fake him out. On our
last turn, the Ferrari didn't have the speed to pass,
but Alex flinched and.
Speaker 3: Peeled off, went into a spin, and that's what took him.
Speaker 7: Over the rail boy. When I think of it.
Speaker 6: Before the race, Baso came and offered me twenty five
million lire for the gray Ghost, and I turned him down.
Speaker 3: Now we're left with nothing but a pilot junk.
Speaker 6: Because you think Alex panicked when you saw it with
your own eyes, what else?
Speaker 4: I'm just not quite sure. Joe, go into Alex please
and try to be nice to him. I want to
be alone in this little waiting room here to think
and maybe maybe make a phone call. Yeah, but kay,
I'm okay.
Speaker 7: Only don't leave me too long with him.
Speaker 4: No, I won't. It'll be so short the end, for
all these years, so.
Speaker 11: You finally know, duchess, I think I do, and you're
ashamed of me.
Speaker 4: I didn't say that.
Speaker 10: Did you have to be as ashamed as I am
of myself?
Speaker 4: What happened?
Speaker 1: You saw it all today? That is almost the way
it wasn't.
Speaker 10: In lead like bass, Oh, I.
Speaker 1: Had the outside.
Speaker 10: I thought I had the speed to take the lead
on a turn.
Speaker 1: But there wasn't quite enough. I was so white I
was afraid to break.
Speaker 10: It might have put me through the rail.
Speaker 11: So even though I know I couldn't make it my
cunning in front, I panic and cut on down, figuring
that Alex would break rather than take the chance my
rear end would knock his front wheels out of alignment.
But I got too sharp and I went into a spin,
and that took me right up the side and.
Speaker 1: Threw the guard right.
Speaker 4: Alex didn't ride you into it.
Speaker 1: It looked that way, but that wasn't the way it was.
Speaker 11: He knew I was crazy, that I was my head,
the same thing that happened to past of today.
Speaker 4: And he came through it all right.
Speaker 11: Alex took the fall for him, just as he had
to take it in another way from me.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'm glad it's old.
Speaker 10: At last, you won't be calling on me again.
Speaker 4: No, Dad, I don't think I will.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, Duchess.
Speaker 10: Maybe now I get rest at last.
Speaker 4: I've got to make a phone call.
Speaker 13: I tell you I'm fine, Giovannie.
Speaker 3: You bruise up to a black tie.
Speaker 13: A little something broken on the shoulder, So what it
has been broken before? The important thing is of the car.
Speaker 7: She is a dream.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the word. A dream.
Speaker 7: That's over. Oh okay, So.
Speaker 4: Joe, you mustn't give up. How are you feeling, Alex?
Speaker 13: I'm Cy's right, Joe one, we get the bad break.
Speaker 6: But next time, Fino, next time you won't be driving
her again.
Speaker 3: You cannot think I lost mine?
Speaker 7: What's the difference now?
Speaker 3: A great difference to me?
Speaker 9: I have my pride.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this time all you killed was an automobile?
Speaker 3: And what did I kill her?
Speaker 7: Somehow? The time?
Speaker 4: Oh you mean if you mean my father? That was
not Alex's fault.
Speaker 6: Tell him the truth, Alex, No, no, no, no, then
I will.
Speaker 4: This is just among us three. My father panicked and
lost his head, just the way Baso did today. So
it is it a crime? It only meant he was human.
But I'm not going to let Alex take the blame.
Speaker 6: Oh, okay, okay, ah, I'm sorry, Alex, I'm sorry, but
what good does it do. There isn't any car left.
The great Ghost has gone.
Speaker 4: Oh no, she isn't. We're going to raise her from
the grave, how with Guido Basso's money. He's waiting to
pay me for my hat. He's promised to back her
till she proves exactly what she is, the best racing
car in Europe. So you have a new partner.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4: He's really sorry and he'll be with you all the way.
Speaker 6: Joe, I mean, I just figured the guy for such
a heel, only where women are consent.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess it's time to board. Good bye, Alex,
win them all from your Armien. Bye bye, Joe. Send
me a picture when she's rebuilt.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, the money I owe you?
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like such a lows. Alex's back
driving again. I have my gray Ghost. But what do
you get out of this?
Speaker 4: My husband? When I get home again? Hope, and at
least I grew up, May.
Speaker 8: I see you take it?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 8: Missus Richards, it's nice to have your board a kid.
Speaker 4: Nice to be going back with you, Angie. Ooh you
look a lot different.
Speaker 8: That's a romod for a girl. You must have found
yourself a real superman.
Speaker 4: I did, and he'll be waiting for me when we
land in the States. I'm going to be married again, Angie.
That's nice, lovely nice, because it's the same man what
i'd kind of like a mirror, sort of funny. I
had to come four thousand miles to finally put a
ghost to rest.
Speaker 2: Four months later, missus Ken Richards received a photograph of
Gray Ghosts two, and by the end of the year
she had established herself as the premier sports car in Europe.
I'll be back shortly with a final thought. If you
should hear a voice from beyond or feel someone at
your shoulder, may I say suggest that the best course
to follow is the advice of Satchel Page, and never
look back. There may be something gaining on you. Our
cast included Betsy Palmer, Ian Martin, William Redfield, ev Justter,
Associate director.
Speaker 1: Marlon Swing.
Speaker 2: This is Hyman Brown, producer director, inviting you to return
to our Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre.
Until next time, then lesson dream