Speaker 1: Come in welcome.
Speaker 2: I me, g Marshall, what are you doing right now?
Give me the next hour of your life. Let me
fill it full of mystery and suspense. And who knows
that hour might just last as long as eternity? Is
there a judgment? And is there a judge at the
very end? Do we approach the final bar, the ultimate bench?
We do? The philosopher tells us we do, And sitting there,
ready to put on the white cap or the black
is the severest judge of all, And from his judgment
there is neither appeal nor hope.
Speaker 1: Of the creed.
Speaker 2: This judge, this last stern arbiter of our fate, is
the very person each of us was meant to be.
Our mystery drama, Every Blossom Dies was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Michael Tolan.
It is sponsored in part by Bullick Motor Division. I'll
be back shortly with that one. Why does the moth
constantly seek the flame? Surely the moth must be aware
of the ultimate consequence. The question will only permit two answers.
A the moth is driven by mysterious forces beyond our comprehension,
or B the moth is out to have a good
time and simply doesn't care.
Speaker 1: Like so many maws.
Speaker 2: There are so many girls like Georgia time ample, pretty vivacious,
fun to be with, smart, except for one little thing.
They have atrocious luck with men. I wish I could
go on talking about Georgia longer, because the moment I stop,
she's going to be killed. But fortunately none of us
here may prevail against fate.
Speaker 3: But what are you doing? Wh Why are you pointing
that gun at me? It's not a joke, Billy, I
don't like it, Billy, don't look at me like that. Uh.
Speaker 4: I was worried.
Speaker 2: Worried for dinner? Ah? Is it the first time, Barbara, No, and.
Speaker 4: It won't be the last.
Speaker 2: But you usually called I'm sorry? Did I Did I
ruin the stake?
Speaker 1: Steak?
Speaker 3: You ought to do the shopping. You're lucky to get
STU Huh.
Speaker 2: Well, if it's ready, I'm ready.
Speaker 3: You know, I was really worried there.
Speaker 2: Oh why should you be worried?
Speaker 3: You mean a CoP's wife doesn't have the right to worry.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not really a cop in that sense. I
mean I'm not in uniform. I'm called in after the crime.
Jerry Ferris and me. Whatever shooting or stabbing, the rough
stuff has already happened. Jerry and I. We do the
gentleman's job, the inquiry.
Speaker 3: It's called Well, you still should have phoned.
Speaker 2: That's right, and there's no excuse.
Speaker 3: I wanted to know about dinner, so I called the
desk at five and they said you'd left for the
day about an hour before. And do you know at
seven thirty? Now, Well, Darling, um, no, honey, I I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I have no right to time.
Speaker 2: You have every right now, it's not under these conditions, Barbara.
If you wanna know where I would, because.
Speaker 3: That would mean that I'm well, I'm taking that note seriously, Barbara.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, I.
Speaker 4: Don't believe that note.
Speaker 3: It was sent by some vicious psycho.
Speaker 1: Darling.
Speaker 2: I wanted to explain it.
Speaker 3: If a person has something to say to me about
my husband, if anyone wish to accuse my husband of infidelity,
let that person fat me openly.
Speaker 4: And with crew.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you where I was this afternoon. I just
know you wouldn't have another woman say you are sure
of me, aren't you?
Speaker 3: I know you?
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 3: It's just a note like that.
Speaker 4: Well, I it's upsetting, darling.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you let me see it? Because I could
have taken it to headquarters and turned it over to
the lab.
Speaker 3: I didn't wanna get involved in anything, and oh, it's
just a crank thing anyhow, I thought it'd be best
all around if i'd just tore it up. I don't
even know why I told you when I'm just scared
to think there are people with that type of mentality
running around.
Speaker 2: Look, the fact is I left headquarters completely resolved to
get home early. When I saw someone, a huddler who
has no business in this particular territory, I thought i'd
keep an eye on him for a while to see
where he might lead me.
Speaker 3: And where did he lead you?
Speaker 2: To a rooming house where he's evidently living? So I
filed him in my mind for future reference and came home.
Speaker 3: Well, I hope you like this stew and made it
with wine.
Speaker 2: How could it be bad?
Speaker 3: And a little music to aid the digestion?
Speaker 2: Uh do you mind?
Speaker 3: Would I love that you hear it?
Speaker 4: Everyone?
Speaker 2: That's the trouble. I've been listening to it all day,
so have.
Speaker 3: I and I never get tired of him?
Speaker 2: Could we could we just do without it.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, but it's such a pretty tune.
Speaker 2: I think it's the title that turns me up. Uh,
every flower must die.
Speaker 3: No, it's every blossom dies. Kind of gives it a
feeling of mystery.
Speaker 2: Al Right, if you really wanna hear it? Oh none,
if it really bothers you, no, it doesn't go ahead
play it?
Speaker 3: No, No, I'd rather talk about something more important. What well,
I hate a nag, but it's money. I'm sure again
this week?
Speaker 2: I know, I I know, Look I I just have
this situation.
Speaker 4: But look at that be I said, I know.
Speaker 3: Jerry Ferris tried to reach a half hour ago.
Speaker 4: He left word to call it?
Speaker 2: Honey, why didn't you tell me it?
Speaker 4: Want it loose? To have your dinner?
Speaker 2: Oh well, hello, they'll saddle and rie. Uh not me, friend, Jerry,
I'm starting my forty eight hours off. We got his homicide,
he addresses seven eighteen as you don't even more than
fifteen minutes to get here?
Speaker 1: Faris?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had better run.
Speaker 3: O can't you get finny?
Speaker 2: No, dear, I don't even know what kind of homicide
we're up against. I better get right over there. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Why it isn't that you didn't warn me before we
were married.
Speaker 2: Look, Darling about that note.
Speaker 3: I've already forgotten about it.
Speaker 4: I wish you would too.
Speaker 2: Seven eighteen Hayes seven eighteen Hayes.
Speaker 1: What there?
Speaker 2: It's you address? Were I'm supposed to meet Jerry?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 4: No? If he isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And why should that? A dress sounds familiar?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: You made a good time, Jerry. Don't you have an
ear for music? That needle stuck in a groove? I
know we'll turn the damn thing. Oh it don't be sore.
I know I pulled you away from dinner. Why are
you just standing there listening to that?
Speaker 1: I'll explain.
Speaker 2: And her name on the door, says Georgia Temple said
her on the floor. Yeah, why you mean? Doc hasn't
been here yet?
Speaker 5: Everybody's been here, and God, I decided not to move
her until you showed up. I want to get some
of that famous Bill Maitland inside.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't do too well on an empty stomach. Bill.
Speaker 1: We got to crack this one.
Speaker 5: The mayor, the DA, they're all up for re election.
Safety that's the big thing today.
Speaker 2: How could you knock it?
Speaker 5: Incidentally, you signed out at four to go home, and
we couldn't reach it.
Speaker 2: I ran into a guy I knew for the army.
We stopped for a couple of beers. What we got
here her.
Speaker 5: Name is was Georgia Temple. Turns out she's an old
girlfriend of yours.
Speaker 2: I never knew a Georgia Temple. Now.
Speaker 5: Now let's get that famous Bill Maitland memory and gear
the name Georgia Temple.
Speaker 2: Temple, Georgia Temple. Oh, there was that murder at the carousel,
probably about a year ago.
Speaker 1: Keep going.
Speaker 2: Georgia at Temple was the singer there, and we picked
up the other one in the joint for questioning it.
Since we finished late at night. We gave her a
lift home.
Speaker 5: You mean you gave her a lift home? You topped
me off, as I recalled.
Speaker 2: Because I had to pass your house first.
Speaker 1: I just mentioned in fact, I read nothing into it.
Speaker 2: Hey, I just dropped her off.
Speaker 1: I know. I kept thinking, what a shame both of
us were married.
Speaker 2: That doesn't stop a lot of guys.
Speaker 5: But in short circuits, guys like you and me, you're
too idealistic and I'm too scared.
Speaker 2: No wonder that address sounded familiar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we meet her again.
Speaker 2: Close that musted up.
Speaker 5: No signs of the fight, no marks of any kind,
Doc says, just three shots, even through the place. Just
a quick glance around, It doesn't look like a robbery.
There's her pers good looking portable TV. There's silver in
the chest drawers. Now let's roll out a robbery. Doc's
pretty sure she wasn't assaulted.
Speaker 2: No sign of forced entry, So evidently she knew the guy.
There's a lot of anger, a great deal of passion
involved here.
Speaker 1: Now why she was shot three times?
Speaker 2: Why? Why fire three shots? Any one of them was
but enough? One in the head, two in the heart,
as if the killer were determined to a knife? Yeah,
later completely, Who do.
Speaker 1: We look for? Disappointed boyfriend?
Speaker 2: Those are always good? Who found the body?
Speaker 1: A lady who has the apartment down the hall. I
got her statement here. She kept hearing music.
Speaker 2: With music this now when you shut that office? Driving
me nuts?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it was driving the neighbor nuts too. It
kept going and going for two hours at least. So
she knocked on the door. She couldn't get any answer,
and for some reason she got nervous.
Speaker 2: Call the police. What was the reason she got nervous?
Speaker 5: She couldn't say, Well, if she's down the hall, let's
ask her.
Speaker 3: As I tell you, I heard the music, and I
knew the needle must have been stock.
Speaker 2: And then missus Woodlard's life.
Speaker 3: Already told this officer. I went down the hall, knocked
on her door, but received no answer. Yes, I called
to her, Miss Temple, Miss Temple, but there was no answer.
Poor child, Now I know why.
Speaker 2: And yes, they said, why are you staring at me?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm not staring at you, young man.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm sorry. Perhaps I shouldn't have used that word,
but it it does appear that you are looking at
me rather intently.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I do give that impression sometimes, but it doesn't do
me any good to look at anyone in any way.
You see, I'm blind.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: Oh it's quite all right. You'd never know it, man,
You never know it here in my home, when everything
is meticulously arranged. Uh.
Speaker 2: You say you heard the record player in this Temple's
apartment and it kept playing the same thing over and
over again. There was no answer. When you knocked on
a door, no answer, and you became very nervous and
called the police. That is correct, sir, what would have
made you that nervous?
Speaker 3: I can only say an old lady becomes nervous for
any reason or no reason.
Speaker 2: About miss Temple, who he meaned.
Speaker 1: A nice enough young lady.
Speaker 3: Of course, she's only been living here a few months.
I hear she was a singer, Yes, but she wasn't working.
Speaker 2: What did she do doing day?
Speaker 4: As father?
Speaker 3: I know she didn't do anything the What shouldn't say that?
She did practice a lot voice, you know, and acting.
Speaker 2: You'd heard her do this.
Speaker 3: She had a tape recorder and she'd work with it
all day.
Speaker 2: Did she have any visitors?
Speaker 3: Oh, well, I shouldn't say this, say what She had
a gentleman friend who I don't know who.
Speaker 4: He would come and go.
Speaker 3: I could hear them quarreling sometimes about what. Two things,
always the same two things. Money was the first and
listen he was unwilling to divorce his wife. Now I
know why I felt nervous this time. Their voices had
an especially ugly tone.
Speaker 1: There was anger the man.
Speaker 2: Did he have a distinctive voice?
Speaker 3: Well, I never heard it, very clearly. It was always
on the other side of the wall.
Speaker 2: What kind of voice was it?
Speaker 4: What kind? Well?
Speaker 3: I would say he had a voice that sounded very
much like yours, Lieutenant, very much like yours.
Speaker 2: If they say physician, heal thyself, should they also say
policemen investigate thyself. Well, there's such a thing as coincidence,
and certainly we all know about circumstantial evidence. Right now,
we only know that a girl named Georgia Temple has
been shocked to death in her apartments. We have no
real evidence that could point to anyone. I'll be back
shortly with that too. Georgia Temple was found a shot
to death in her apartment. The police are naturally asking
the expected question, who killed Georgia Temple? So far, there
isn't any evidence that would point to anyone. There is, however,
a clue, a lead. It isn't much, but it's all
we have, and it points at one person, and that
person happens to be the police detective who is heading
the investigation. Let me understand this, missus Woodruff. You've heard
this man's voice, yes, lieutenant, and it reminds you of mine?
Speaker 3: Will It sounds like yours.
Speaker 2: They say that blind that sightless people have remarkable hearing.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's like everything else.
Speaker 4: Some do, some don't.
Speaker 3: And the fact that your voice sounds it almost exactly
like the the gentleman friend of Miss Temples will that
doesn't have to move very much. After all, just as
there are people who look very much alike, there are
people who sound very much alike.
Speaker 2: Thank you, missus Woodrow.
Speaker 3: I hope i'd been able to help you.
Speaker 2: Gentlemen, you were very helpful, Missus Woodrow. Well, Bill, have
we cracked this case this fast?
Speaker 1: Are you the killer?
Speaker 2: If she's willing to testify on her oath said it
was my voice?
Speaker 5: Were you pulling a fast one on everybody?
Speaker 2: It were a way in every way?
Speaker 1: Like you saw her home that time? You did, didn't you?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And maybe why not come in for a night cap?
Speaker 2: Tell more?
Speaker 1: And maybe you did?
Speaker 5: And well, maybe one thing led to another, and you've
had this cozy little setup.
Speaker 2: For the past couple of years. Keep talking, But you
know the course of true.
Speaker 1: Love, it never runs.
Speaker 5: So maybe you have this fight and you pumped three
slugs into her.
Speaker 2: Maybe you better check my service revolver.
Speaker 5: I already got the lab report. The weapon was a
twenty two caliber. I guess that puts me in a
clear I guess it does.
Speaker 1: So where are we.
Speaker 2: We know it's a guy. They quarreled for any one
of uh the maybe reasons or something else. How carefully,
if you searched the place, we don't have any prints.
You mean, no finger prints.
Speaker 5: At all, not not even hers, not even hers.
Speaker 2: But her print should be all over the place, after all,
she lived here. Nothing that means he took a rag
and worked the whole apartment over because his prince must
have been all over the place too. This guy spent
a lot of time here.
Speaker 1: Somebody must have seen him.
Speaker 2: Look, why don't you ring some doorbells? I'll poke around
the apartment.
Speaker 5: There's no good in the eyewitness departments. Four other tenants,
Missus Woodruff was blind. We already know down to three.
Mister Sasax, musician all night, sleeps all day, doesn't know anything.
Mister McPhee has been in Afghanistan for the past four months.
Nobody can tell us when he'll be back. Lewis is
here in Florida. Well, they spend six months of.
Speaker 1: The year and that's it. Now, what do you got?
Speaker 2: I look through the garbage? Can I find these papers?
These half torn, crumpled papers here? Read?
Speaker 5: Ask your husband where he is all the times when
he tells you he's at work, Ask and stuff that's
cost on.
Speaker 2: I'll read the next one.
Speaker 5: Ask your husband where he is when he's supposed to
be working. Ask him why money is so short.
Speaker 1: The rest is cost off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was writing or had written a note. These
are just the copies she made the mistakes on. Then
when she typed one finally that was okay. That was
the one.
Speaker 5: She said, Hey, that figures bill. She sent a note
to the guy's wife.
Speaker 2: But why, who knows why? Maybe to force him into
some kind of move, to put it in a position
where he'd have to choose between them.
Speaker 1: She's got a typewriter. I saw it in her bedroom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can see these were typed on her machine.
Speaker 1: So, oh, she sent the note. The guy's wife got it.
She raised the roof.
Speaker 5: The guy got so Mady killed her. Sounds reasonable, Yeah,
so somewhere there's a note that was typed on her machine.
Speaker 2: Some wife has it. If we find the wife, we
find the guy.
Speaker 4: Hey, I remember your tellers. Yeah, the cops that.
Speaker 3: Was in the place tonight, we had that unfortunate situation.
Speaker 2: Tell us about Georgia Temple, Poor Georgia. She said, all
you can say all.
Speaker 4: That about thumbs it up. Poor Georgia. She left here
about a year ago.
Speaker 2: Did she go to another job.
Speaker 3: Now she's I guess you'd have to say she retired
at her age.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's what it came to see.
Speaker 3: She started running around with a guy who nobody knows who.
Any how, she must have been nuts about him. She
could sing him just because he told her to. Boy,
I asked her, she said, he doesn't want me to
be an entertainer.
Speaker 4: He doesn't want to share me. Does she quit?
Speaker 2: How did she live?
Speaker 4: He was supporting her.
Speaker 2: He must have been a man with money, No.
Speaker 4: Not too much, not the type that's got it to
throw around. After all, she.
Speaker 3: Wasn't living in a lot of luxuries. That's what she wanted.
She could have done better.
Speaker 2: Do you think so? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: She was a kid who could at gone places. You know,
some gals they just get.
Speaker 4: Tied in with the wrong guys. I guess you fellas.
Speaker 2: See things like this every day, maybe every other day.
Speaker 5: She didn't tell me why he wanted to come back
to the apartment built.
Speaker 2: The tape recorder, Missus Woodluf said, Georgia Temple worked with
a tape recorder. Yeah, where is it. Do you remember
seeing it? No?
Speaker 1: They if you stole him.
Speaker 2: Come on, why would a guy come in here kill
her and just take the paper recorder? She had money
in her purse, remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's look around.
Speaker 2: Hey, hold it. I think I remember something when I
looked through her bag, I think I saw why I
hold it? Uh, Lieutenant Maitland, let me have the property office. Please?
Speaker 1: What do you think you saw?
Speaker 2: Maxwell? This is Bill Maitland. There stuff that belonged to
Georgia Temple. See if there's a pawn ticket. Yeah, I'll
hold pawn ticket. She pawned the recorder. But why she
needed money? Look? The guy paid for everything else, the
TV set, the furniture, the silver But the tape recorder
that must have been hers? Yeah, Maxwell, there is be
right down to pick it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I wrote it about in the paper.
Speaker 2: Why what can you do? You gave her fifty dollars
for this type ability?
Speaker 1: It's a good one, high quality.
Speaker 6: Listen, wait, Justice, Let there be no delay, no shadow
of suspicion, delay, A A dot A sound say a
not a well, great actress. You'll never be Georgie, back
to night clubs for you. Let there be no delay,
and let there be no delay tonight. Either have it
out with Billy boy without delay, weak justice. Let there
be no delay nor shadow of suspicion. How if he
doesn't shape.
Speaker 2: Up, you'll have to hold it. Let's uh, let's run.
Speaker 1: It back.
Speaker 6: And let there be no delay tonight. Either, I have it
out with Billy boy without delay.
Speaker 2: Billy boy, Billy, let's run.
Speaker 6: Sweet justice. Let there be no delay or shadow up
the STI and if he doesn't shape up, you'll have
to you'll have.
Speaker 3: To do something definite.
Speaker 6: Sweet justice.
Speaker 1: Let there be, let there be, Let there be. What
a letter?
Speaker 6: We'll write a little letter, just a simple little note
guaranteed to get his goat. Ask your husband where he
is all the times when he tells you he's at work.
Where is he's spending those long evening in hours dying
one of the girls. Well, Billy boy, that should get
us some action. You won't have to worry about divorcing her.
Maybe she'll divorce you. MM, that's the way to rite it.
Speaker 1: I guess that's all.
Speaker 2: So now we know his name, Billy.
Speaker 3: And me block and die Hu Hi, Bob deal. I
think you were coming home late tonight.
Speaker 2: I am Paris and I am making around at some
of the watering places. I was at the Starlight Club.
There's a few blocks from here. Do you wanna shut
that off for a minute. I I just like to relax, Oh, shure. I.
I don't know what there is about that song. It
just I don't know. It makes me nervous. I don't
know why.
Speaker 3: I think you're working too hard.
Speaker 2: That's possible.
Speaker 3: You're probably killing yourself.
Speaker 2: I know, but that's me. How's the key inching along?
Speaker 4: Why you be getting the saloon?
Speaker 2: Somebody must have seen that girl out with this guy.
They had to go somewhere. Why do you say that
you're a woman. Would you be satisfied just to sit
home and wait for your man and never get to
go out?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I do sit around here most of the time, don't.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. That's how It is not just that this
has been an unusually busy year.
Speaker 3: No, just that you're an unusually busy cop. Your own partner,
Jerry Ferris, is home a good deal of the time.
I know, I talk to Janet.
Speaker 4: But I'm satisfied.
Speaker 2: No, Barbie, you shouldn't be. It isn't right.
Speaker 3: If it's the way you look at your job your responsibility.
Speaker 2: Then it's right now I have another responsibility, and it's
just as important.
Speaker 3: You dear, I don't mind, and I do understand because
I love you and I want you to be happy
in your work.
Speaker 2: We're we're going away just as soon as this case
is in the bag. I'm taking my leave. Do you
realize I've got a whole month coming?
Speaker 4: Are you sure? You let?
Speaker 2: And you know where we're going. We're going to Europe?
Speaker 3: Europe? Oh oh? How can we even talk about it?
You yourself did?
Speaker 4: Money's very kind?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think I think I'm out for London.
Speaker 1: I think hard.
Speaker 2: Molly.
Speaker 1: The name Billy, What does it mean to you?
Speaker 4: Not a thing?
Speaker 5: She never spoke about a guy named Billy. Now you
knew she was going out with a guy. Yep, Billy
means nothing.
Speaker 4: Not in connection with your pampa. Well not to me anytime, Jerry.
Speaker 5: Let's get out of here. You come across anything in
your travels?
Speaker 2: Nothing? Molly? Don't they ever play any other kind of
song in here?
Speaker 4: I like her?
Speaker 1: Where you wanna go?
Speaker 2: Now back to the apartment again? Yeah, let's start all over.
I think I see the trail that will lead us
straight to the killer. What do we know for sure?
We know a girl was killed. We know a man
named Billy is the killer. We know they quarreled over money.
We're pretty sure Georgia wrote an anonymous note to Billy's wife.
We also know the police detective who is investigating the
murder is also named Bill. His wife received an anonymous
note accusing her husband of being with another woman. Well,
before you reach any definite conclusions, wait until I returned.
Shortly with Act three, the great French writer De Mossan
wrote a fascinating short story. The man was a professional
knife thrower. His wife was his partner. He threw the heavy,
sharp knives at her outlined form on the board. The
slightest error of judgment on his part would mean death
for her, But the audience was unaware of the real
drama on the stage. She was unfaithful to him. He
knew it. She even taunted him. Why didn't she know that?
He could have killed her by accident? But she knew
a great secret. He was an artist. He could not
deliberately make a mistake, so she was safe. Why do
we tell you this?
Speaker 1: What is the connection with our story?
Speaker 2: Well, don't you want to do any of the work yourself.
Speaker 5: You still haven't told me why I wanted to come
back to her apartments. We picked it clean, We found
everything that was here.
Speaker 2: Okay, now let's look for what isn't here. Like what
the lad says, she was killed because she was shot
three times. It was a twenty two caliber pistol. Yeah,
it was the gun.
Speaker 5: But it would have been great if the guy I'd
loved to hear. But as you well know, killers aren't
usually that considerate.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't expect him to leave the gun. But
what should have been here that wasn't and they should
have been on the floor. Chrischelle, you fire a pistol.
The shellcases are ejected. Now would the guy stop to
look for him and pick him up? Not likely now,
But for our guy it is likely smart capable killer,
no mess, no fuss. He picks a weapon that makes
hardly any noise, just a crack that could be an
automobile backfire, no panic. He cleans the place from top
to bottom, does away with all his prints.
Speaker 1: Tries there's not a trace of him here.
Speaker 2: Another thing, Now, it's his closet, it's empty. Would a
woman have an empty closet in her house? Never, So
what does it mean?
Speaker 5: Means he kept some clothes here, that's right, And he
removed all traces of him and of himself. Well, we
kind of knew all this about him, Bill, How do
we move ahead?
Speaker 2: What did he do with the gun? He got rid
of it? Right, He wouldn't keep that gun five seconds
longer than necessary. He knows he has to get rid
of that weapon. But where, okay, where you're this guy?
He just killed her, he got the gun. You go
to your car, you drive off. Now, just nine hundred
yards from here is the bridge over the Westland River,
a very deep, fast flowing, murky body of water. So
you stop the car. Is there a better place?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Bill?
Speaker 1: You say this as if you're gonna actually see it.
Speaker 2: It's just a question of putting yourself in the killer's place.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 2: I have to come home for dinner more often. This
chicken is great.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I forgot how fantastic a cook you are.
Speaker 4: Bill.
Speaker 3: I was going through your closet today. I wanted to
see if you had anything to the cleaners and and what.
Speaker 4: And I came.
Speaker 1: Across some clothes.
Speaker 2: You clothes, Oh, I.
Speaker 3: Don't remember you're buying them.
Speaker 2: How do you like 'em?
Speaker 3: Well, they're not quite the conservative styyer.
Speaker 2: You were on your job that I was for the job.
I just picked him up the other day I I
passed by this place. They were having a sale. I'll
need 'em for the trip.
Speaker 1: What trip?
Speaker 2: The trip to Europe? Don't you remember?
Speaker 4: Do you mean you were serious?
Speaker 2: Sure? Why do you think I bought all these clothes?
Speaker 4: When you are going?
Speaker 2: Look tomorrow, you go shopping?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Can I depend on you to get yourself a complete
wardrobe house?
Speaker 3: I'm so happy I'll get it. Hi, Marlborah, Uh, come
on in there, Bill?
Speaker 4: It your sign me? Quinn?
Speaker 2: Anything new? They finally got where.
Speaker 1: Where you set?
Speaker 2: It was in the river bed under the bridge? Anything
on it?
Speaker 1: The lad's checking it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Let's go down and wait for the report.
Speaker 3: Who Bill, won't you finish your dinner?
Speaker 2: How do you put it away for me? I'll be
stabbed when I get home? Who?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 3: When you even have a minute for yourself? Where did
you get a chance to do that shopping?
Speaker 1: Want shopping?
Speaker 3: You mean you boys have secrets from each other?
Speaker 4: Came I'll show you?
Speaker 3: How do you like that snazzy new wardrobe?
Speaker 1: Your partner picked up not bad? Would you buy all these?
Speaker 3: Simon Lagreen? You gave him some time off the other afternoon.
Speaker 4: Remember, I don't.
Speaker 2: Remember how we were checking out places where Georgia Temple
might have been seen with her boyfriend. You and I
split up. I passed by this store and did a
little shopping on the city. Time is if the city.
Speaker 3: Doesn't owe you more time than it can ever pay.
Speaker 1: You for, Well, don't look at me.
Speaker 2: We better get downtown and check out the story on
that gun.
Speaker 5: Hollistics establishes this little baby used the gun, all right?
Speaker 2: What about the serial number? Take a look and file off.
But can't be filed off completely. Lab can always find
a trace.
Speaker 1: This guy, I know what he was doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't know about you, but I'm stuck.
I must be losing my grip.
Speaker 1: Come on, Billy, look at how you carry the case?
Speaker 2: Is far you mean?
Speaker 3: We?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: You?
Speaker 1: We'd be at god zero without you.
Speaker 5: You found out about the notes, You found out about
the tape recorder which gave us his first name. You
figured out where to look for the gun. I was
great police officers.
Speaker 2: Routine police work, Jerry. And what does it mean? Now?
I'm stuck. This uh guy. He's been making moves, and
I've been finding the counter move to each of them.
I get him to reveal his motive, then his first name.
Then when he tried to hide the murder weapon, and
we find the gun, and on the serial number, I
should be able to trace him down. But well, you're
feeling okay, But there's no serial number. It is if
this guy knew every move I'd make. And he leads
me on, feeds me one little clue after another, and
just feel like I'm ready to go in for the cot.
He yanks the rug out come under You know something
right now, I'm sure he's laughing at me.
Speaker 1: We been in thoughts like this before, Bill, hundreds of time.
Speaker 2: Now, there comes a time in every case when you
know who's smarter. You are the guy you're after. Bill,
you don't know what you're saying. What I'm saying is
we're up against the killer who's smarter than we are,
and that's why he's gonna get away with it.
Speaker 3: Oh hi, Jake, Bill's left a lady.
Speaker 1: I know I came to see you.
Speaker 4: Who who come on?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 3: What you got there?
Speaker 1: Portable typewriter?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, can I do something for you. Jack.
Speaker 1: You'll have to answer question, Barbara.
Speaker 4: Why you sound serious?
Speaker 1: I should. It's a matter of life and death? Barbara?
Did did you get a notes?
Speaker 5: A typewritten note suggesting that Bill.
Speaker 1: Might be seeing another woman?
Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: I said, it's a matter of life and death.
Speaker 4: No, it's the.
Speaker 3: Matter is my own personal and private.
Speaker 4: Didn't it?
Speaker 1: Note? Why a girl named Georgia Temple?
Speaker 3: Georgie you mean the one who would murder?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But what would that have to do with Barbara?
Speaker 1: You did get the notes?
Speaker 3: How'd you know?
Speaker 5: That's the only thing that makes sense, the only possibility left.
Speaker 3: Why would she let me a note about Bell?
Speaker 1: I said, we have to help him?
Speaker 4: Help him do what?
Speaker 1: Get the killer? You see right now? He's stuck.
Speaker 5: He needs a hand, he needs a clue. When we
first came across the idea of the note, he said,
the note some wife has.
Speaker 1: If we find the wife, we find eyes.
Speaker 3: But I destroyed the nose.
Speaker 1: I have Miss Temple's typewriter.
Speaker 3: Ah, you're trying to find him?
Speaker 4: What Miss you think I would help you?
Speaker 1: Barbara? He killed her?
Speaker 3: No, No, I don't believe you.
Speaker 4: You're talking about this?
Speaker 1: I know, but not your Bill another Bill.
Speaker 4: I don't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1: Please, Barbara. Bill is two people. Two yes.
Speaker 5: One is the hard working, brilliant detective of your husband,
the guy who loves you. The other is a wild
kind of guy who lives in the same skull, but
nobody ever know about him, not even Bill himself. And
suddenly this guy broke out. He fell for a girl
named Georgia Temple.
Speaker 2: Here we get out of here.
Speaker 5: He had to kill her, and Bill's been trying to
find him.
Speaker 3: You're saying, my Bill is a murderer.
Speaker 1: I'm saying there's a part of me doesn't know about. It.
Speaker 3: All comes down to one thing.
Speaker 4: He's the killer.
Speaker 1: Yes, he's the killer. Say it that way. But he's blocked.
It's gone from his mind.
Speaker 3: Chi what I goed to do.
Speaker 5: Help him, help him find a note he'ld his rest, Barbara,
it has to be done.
Speaker 3: Mind if I put something on the record, say your Bill, No,
of course not.
Speaker 2: How did he know enough to get rid of the
serial number?
Speaker 1: But he staying dying.
Speaker 2: He knew enough to file it down all the way
I would've had him.
Speaker 1: Why do I see it so clearly?
Speaker 2: Actually, the way I would have done it myself.
Speaker 1: But I'll get him.
Speaker 2: He left something loose. He couldn't have tied everything up. Barbara, Barbara,
don't hear that thing? It's stuck?
Speaker 3: Well, if it bother you can do well.
Speaker 2: That silly thing bothers me even when it isn't stuck
every blossom. Guys, what a name for a song?
Speaker 4: What tune does? Honey? Is it bother?
Speaker 1: He's so much al right?
Speaker 2: I will did you uh got this piece of paper
on the floor?
Speaker 4: What piece of paper here?
Speaker 1: What is it that?
Speaker 2: He says? Dear missus Maitland, ask your husband where he
is all the time? Is when he tells you he's
at work, whereas he's spending those long evening hours.
Speaker 1: Ay, Bill, I think I found a new lead.
Speaker 2: Forget it, we just won the whole ball game. We
found a note. Note the note, Georgia Temple wrote to
the guy's wife. Remember what we said, find the wife
and you got the guy. Yeah, we got the wife,
dear missus Maitland, And her husband's the killer. Huh her
her husband?
Speaker 1: Yes? Bill?
Speaker 2: But I I I'm her husband, Yes Bill? No, No,
I I didn't kill her. I didn't kill her, Bill.
Speaker 5: Tell her to detective Lieutenant Bill Maitland tell her detective
he didn't kill.
Speaker 1: Her bear By? I didn't.
Speaker 4: How could I?
Speaker 2: I don't care see why I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. You see it now, Bill?
Speaker 2: Hi?
Speaker 1: Bill? Can you? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I.
Speaker 1: See it now? What happened? What happened? You know what happened?
Speaker 2: You thought it was a joke, and you send it
back at her apartment. I thought it was a joke.
You said, did you take her home that night? And
did she ask you in for a night cap? And
did one thing lead to another?
Speaker 1: Well, yes it did, it did, But a.
Speaker 2: Thing like that, it was wrong, and it kept getting worse,
and I couldn't face it anymore. It wouldn't go away,
She wouldn't go away, or maybe I couldn't stay away.
So I had to blast it away, wipe it out.
I fired three shots, and it was gone, gone, and
I was released.
Speaker 1: I was I was.
Speaker 2: Free as if it had never happened.
Speaker 5: Lieutenant, We've got all the evidence. Do you wanna bring
him in, Jerry?
Speaker 2: We have to bring him in. He's a killer. Temporary
insanity was the way it finally wound up. Legally, Bill
is no longer a coup. He had undergone a long
period of treatment, and I and Barbara lived quietly together.
Now Bill's life isn't very exciting, but it has other satisfactions.
At least Bill knows who he is. I shall be
back shortly. In music, they have what is known as
theme and variations. Often one composer will take a theme
written by another and write a beautiful series of variations
on it. The basic theme of today's story was, of course,
Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde, which was a variation by
Stevenson on a famous medieval legend. Jekyll and Hyde, a
famous partnership which only requires one person, and you find
it so often almost everyone. Our cast included Michael Tolan,
George Petrie, Katherine Byers, and E. V. Jester. The entire
production was under the direction of Hyman Brown. For this
is a G. Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
Pleasant Dream. The preceding program was furnished by CBS Radio.