1 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:11,519 Speaker 1: Come in Welcome. I'm e. G. 2 00:00:11,759 --> 00:00:17,440 Speaker 2: Marshall, New York is a city of subways, old, new 3 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:22,640 in construction and projected, and of the masses of people 4 00:00:22,679 --> 00:00:26,960 who ride them daily, commuting to and from work. This 5 00:00:27,079 --> 00:00:30,480 is a story of an old and battlescarred subway user 6 00:00:31,079 --> 00:00:35,320 and a new spur line opened at last, and as usual, 7 00:00:35,799 --> 00:00:40,679 too late to achieve its objective relieve congestion. But it 8 00:00:40,759 --> 00:00:44,719 did bring Alvin Freiberg a strange and wonderful freedom from 9 00:00:44,719 --> 00:00:48,759 the grinding daily tragedy of a life not worth living. 10 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,439 Speaker 1: What's the matter? You got a nitch or something? We're 11 00:00:51,439 --> 00:00:53,600 getting near thirty fifth and really I'm not passing it. 12 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,560 I guess subway doesn't stop. But that's why. 13 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:58,479 Speaker 3: Now I know it's got to be a reason to 14 00:00:58,520 --> 00:00:59,840 how come a conductor doesn't. 15 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: Know brand new wine? Call the transitor third, I. 16 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,719 Speaker 4: Didn't get a chance. I gotta know the truth about it, 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:07,719 just the same. Here it comes thirty fifth of Billie. 18 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:09,920 This time, I gotta know, what are you gonna do? 19 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:10,599 Speaker 1: Stop the train? 20 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,879 Speaker 5: I'm gonna get off, crazy or something, Alvin stay away 21 00:01:13,879 --> 00:01:27,480 in an emergency. 22 00:01:29,079 --> 00:01:33,799 Speaker 2: Our mystery drama The Phantom Stop was written especially for 23 00:01:33,879 --> 00:01:37,760 the Mystery Theater by Ian Martin and stars Norman Rose. 24 00:01:38,799 --> 00:01:42,560 It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division. I'll 25 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:58,400 be back shortly with Act one. Al Freiberg and Marvin 26 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,760 Schreiber shared the same treadmill. They both worked for Goldman Incorporated. 27 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:08,080 Al is a pattern maker, Marv is a cutter. They 28 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,639 both rode the subway morning and night. They both shared 29 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:15,240 the same two family house in Flushing, owned by Marvin. 30 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:19,159 But of the two, Marv was the lucky one. When 31 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:22,159 he came home, he came back to love and affection. 32 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:27,639 What Al came home to was, well, that was something else? 33 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:27,960 Speaker 1: Again? 34 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:30,479 Speaker 6: Is that you at last? 35 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 4: Dalvin? 36 00:02:31,319 --> 00:02:32,479 Speaker 1: Yes, Ester, I'm home. 37 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:33,319 Speaker 6: You're late. 38 00:02:33,479 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 1: I'm late. 39 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:35,879 Speaker 6: That's all you got to say? 40 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 4: Well else should I say? I was making hanky panky 41 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:39,280 with one of the models. 42 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:42,759 Speaker 6: We'll give you even a look. Models. I don't worry about. 43 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 7: But you and that mob downstairs could have stop, maybe 44 00:02:45,439 --> 00:02:47,000 for a beer, Let me smell your breath. 45 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,199 Speaker 1: I wouldn't advise it. I had a garlic tickle with lunch. 46 00:02:50,439 --> 00:02:54,039 Speaker 6: A comedian I married. So why are late to have 47 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:54,639 a heart? 48 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 4: We're behind befall deadline. We've got to get out the garments. 49 00:02:57,319 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 7: Now, don't give me a story that think Goldman's you 50 00:03:00,439 --> 00:03:03,120 into overtime. He'd have a heart attack if you had 51 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,639 to pay a dime over take on, pay, give a. 52 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:07,840 Speaker 1: Little, take a little, A few minutes overtime isn't going 53 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:10,000 to make me run to the shop, Steward, give a little. 54 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:13,479 Speaker 6: Sure, that's the story of your life. When did you. 55 00:03:13,439 --> 00:03:15,280 Speaker 1: Take person makes his own choices. 56 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,759 Speaker 4: I want to sit down. I've been on my feet 57 00:03:17,759 --> 00:03:20,719 all day. It was just the subway was late. 58 00:03:20,879 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 6: Now the subway don't run on time. 59 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,120 Speaker 1: I mean me and Marv. We missed the regular. 60 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 7: Trail and he was working overtime too. 61 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: Huh. He stopped to buy a present for his wife. 62 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 6: It's a pity you couldn't have the same excuse. 63 00:03:33,199 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: It's her birthday you had yours. 64 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,759 Speaker 7: Don't talk about birthdays, and don't sit down. I want 65 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:40,280 you to fix Rebecca's hair dryer. 66 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: What's the matter with it? 67 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:42,719 Speaker 6: Would I ask you? 68 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:44,759 Speaker 7: If I knew it doesn't work? 69 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: Couldn't she let her hair dry with God's own air? 70 00:03:47,039 --> 00:03:47,400 For once? 71 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 8: In curlers? 72 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:49,599 Speaker 1: She don't mind in the morning. 73 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 4: Every time I eat a shredded wheat, I look up 74 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,400 at her and think What am I doing eating one. 75 00:03:54,319 --> 00:03:56,960 Speaker 1: Of your sister's curlers? Hey? How comes she don't wear 76 00:03:56,960 --> 00:03:58,240 her hair straight all the time? 77 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,719 Speaker 7: Nothing helps to So she's gone to the community center. 78 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:02,919 Speaker 1: She's wasting her time. 79 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,879 Speaker 4: There isn't a nice boy who wasn't already taken? 80 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 8: Say is that out of his last Yeah? 81 00:04:08,759 --> 00:04:09,719 Speaker 7: He just walked in. 82 00:04:10,199 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 9: Oh, tell him to run down of the drug store. 83 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:13,719 Speaker 8: Give me some gold proom. 84 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 4: Couldn't she go down to get it herself? 85 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:16,639 Speaker 1: All day? 86 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,600 Speaker 4: All she does is sit a lumbago? 87 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:19,439 Speaker 6: Is bothering on? 88 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: Maybe she's just waking up to what she is a 89 00:04:21,439 --> 00:04:22,279 big pain in this? 90 00:04:22,519 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 7: Is he going a run out of her hand? Setting? 91 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 8: I'm only half curled? 92 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 1: Yef boiled is more like it? 93 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,519 Speaker 7: Is that any way to talk about your own flesh 94 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:32,000 and blood? 95 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:32,800 Speaker 1: Is your sister? 96 00:04:32,959 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 7: Are you going down to the drug store on that? 97 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:35,639 Speaker 9: Yes? 98 00:04:37,079 --> 00:04:41,959 Speaker 1: Yes, glow proom? Right, you might as. 99 00:04:41,879 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 7: Well get the giant can then you can fix the 100 00:04:43,879 --> 00:04:44,399 hair dryer. 101 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:46,879 Speaker 4: Should have been a barber. The things I could do 102 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:47,720 with a racer. 103 00:04:47,879 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 7: Come on, come on, re Beck is waiting when I 104 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:51,360 get home? 105 00:04:51,439 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: Can we eat? 106 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 7: Oh? Just like a man, the only thing on his 107 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,120 mind is this stomach. 108 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,680 Speaker 1: To tell the truth. 109 00:05:03,439 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 4: Limping down the drug store, the only thing on my 110 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:07,519 mind was my sister in. 111 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: Law, except maybe my wife and a razor. 112 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,720 Speaker 4: The things that go through a man's mind that would 113 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:21,680 frighten you, but you could settle with one simple stroke. 114 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,759 All day long at the shop, the boss screams at me, 115 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:26,800 and then at night and weekends, I got my wife 116 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,720 and her sister yelling at me. Ah, it's not like 117 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,439 it used to be in the old days with Sarah, 118 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:34,639 my first wife. 119 00:05:36,079 --> 00:05:36,759 Speaker 1: With Sarah. 120 00:05:37,199 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 4: When I got home, it was all together different. Hello, shot, 121 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:46,199 see hello, sweet high. 122 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:48,959 Speaker 8: Come into the living room, Sada. 123 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 9: I got your slippers in the paper and a nice 124 00:05:52,959 --> 00:05:55,000 glass of tea with a little you know what. 125 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,959 Speaker 1: Go and rest up a little before dinner. You're such 126 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,000 a good wife, Sarah. 127 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 9: Oh, what's so hard? I got a good man here, 128 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:11,560 done ship? Oh give me your shoes. Hu's business, eh, 129 00:06:11,759 --> 00:06:13,560 I we'll talk later after we eat. 130 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:14,519 Speaker 1: What's for dinner? 131 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:15,720 Speaker 8: A favorite? 132 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: Yess ah? What's the difference? Anything you cook is my favorite. 133 00:06:25,079 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 4: I never really realized how much Sarah meant to me 134 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:33,079 until she died and I married esther. If Sarah had lived, 135 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:35,560 it would have been but it would have been just 136 00:06:35,639 --> 00:06:39,560 like Marvin and Rachel downstairs, love warm, with kids, a 137 00:06:39,639 --> 00:06:43,600 real family. I made more money, but he was the 138 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:46,639 one with a life. Oh, Marv was a lucky guy 139 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:47,519 with his Rachel. 140 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 7: Say good night to the kids, Marv. 141 00:06:51,439 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, growing like weeds. 142 00:06:55,639 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: Thank god. They both looked like you. 143 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,639 Speaker 8: Go on. Was sit already and drinking coffee. 144 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: Where's yours? 145 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:02,439 Speaker 8: Right over here? 146 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: They'll bring it to the sofa and sit with me. 147 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:06,199 Speaker 8: I gotta do the dishes. 148 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: Come on, the dishes can wait. I'll help later. 149 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:11,839 Speaker 7: You got anything in mind, Marvin? 150 00:07:11,879 --> 00:07:15,279 Speaker 4: The kids aren't that much as anytime I look at you, 151 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:16,480 I got something in mind. 152 00:07:17,399 --> 00:07:21,279 Speaker 1: But don't worry. It's not that something else. 153 00:07:21,439 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 8: It's the matter. 154 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:23,279 Speaker 6: But you didn't get later. 155 00:07:23,079 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: On, Nothing like that, don't you. That's just for love? 156 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:29,959 Speaker 6: What did I do to deserve that? 157 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 1: Just for being you? Boy? What a lucky guy? 158 00:07:33,759 --> 00:07:34,639 Speaker 8: I am, all right. 159 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 6: I wouldn't deny it, but I'll come. 160 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:37,199 Speaker 8: You know it. 161 00:07:37,639 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 4: The way we are and the way Alvin and Sarah 162 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:45,800 used to be before. Why do some guys get all 163 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:48,000 the breaks and the rest get a kick in the pants. 164 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,759 Speaker 7: It was a terrible thing that happened to Sarah. 165 00:07:50,519 --> 00:07:53,319 Speaker 4: Bad enough to lose your first child, but a wife 166 00:07:53,399 --> 00:07:58,279 as well. Remember how it used to be with the 167 00:07:58,319 --> 00:08:00,600 four of us when we first moved into this house. 168 00:08:00,839 --> 00:08:04,199 Speaker 7: Sure it was a whole family, two family house, but 169 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:05,639 one family living. 170 00:08:05,439 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: In a sea. 171 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,519 Speaker 4: You me, Sarah and Alvin dinner every Sunday, one week, 172 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,079 they turn next one hours. 173 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: Times were good. Remember the picnics that Jones be. 174 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,639 Speaker 7: Oh do I Sarah's potato salad? Nobody could make potato 175 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:21,279 salad like that? 176 00:08:21,399 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 4: Oh boy, and you're pot roast the best. And what 177 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,079 a cut up that I used to be. Could have 178 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,160 been on the stage. What laughs we have. 179 00:08:30,959 --> 00:08:33,399 Speaker 7: Especially that last time I remember with Sarah and me 180 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:35,679 both out here with our kids, and you wanted to 181 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:40,600 take a picture. Oh I miss Sarah. 182 00:08:40,679 --> 00:08:41,440 Speaker 8: I try to. 183 00:08:41,399 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 7: Get on with us. 184 00:08:42,399 --> 00:08:43,799 Speaker 1: I that loud mouse. 185 00:08:44,279 --> 00:08:46,639 Speaker 4: She'd burn your ear off with nothing good to say 186 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:47,440 about anybody. 187 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: And the sister's worse. 188 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:49,279 Speaker 7: She can't help it. 189 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 6: If she's got a face. 190 00:08:50,159 --> 00:08:51,039 Speaker 8: It could stop a horse. 191 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,159 Speaker 4: To keep a big nose out of everybody's business. What's 192 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,519 the madam, Marvin? There's no heat in the house. You 193 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:57,879 want us all to get pneumonia? 194 00:08:57,919 --> 00:08:59,759 Speaker 6: And she's always sick with something. 195 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:00,759 Speaker 1: It wasn't for Al. 196 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 4: I'd find some way to kick him out and get 197 00:09:03,759 --> 00:09:04,360 new tenants. 198 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,159 Speaker 7: Oh you couldn't do that, Aw no. 199 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,279 Speaker 4: Ah, he's the one or to get rid of them. 200 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: God forgive me for saying it. 201 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 7: Oh why shouldn't he? I mean they deserve him. 202 00:09:14,759 --> 00:09:17,759 Speaker 4: Not what I was thinking, and what sometimes I think 203 00:09:17,919 --> 00:09:20,799 lately Al could have on his mind. What do you mean, 204 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,039 you know, knocking off either one of those two old 205 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,000 crows or to be justifiable homicide? 206 00:09:27,159 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 8: Marvin? What do you say? 207 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:32,120 Speaker 4: There never was a kinder or more gentle person than 208 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,759 Alvin Frebury. But you put a mouse in a bowl 209 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,879 with a lid on and let him run around trapped. 210 00:09:39,759 --> 00:09:42,080 He ever gets that lid off, out comes a raging tiger. 211 00:09:44,279 --> 00:09:44,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. 212 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,879 Speaker 4: Maybe it's all the violence, but the Al worries me 213 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:55,399 these days. He daydreams a lot, gets behind on his work. 214 00:09:55,480 --> 00:10:01,480 He drives Goldman frantic, and every so often I'll see 215 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,679 him pick up my cutting shears and just, you know, 216 00:10:05,919 --> 00:10:06,759 kind of weigh. 217 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 1: Them in his hand like they were I don't know, 218 00:10:09,159 --> 00:10:10,559 I'd like to fight like a weapon. 219 00:10:10,879 --> 00:10:13,759 Speaker 7: What are you suggesting he's going to turn into a 220 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:22,759 murderer or something? Alf Ryburg Ah, don't make me laugh, but. 221 00:10:22,759 --> 00:10:25,519 Speaker 4: It wasn't something to laugh at. If only Rachel could 222 00:10:25,519 --> 00:10:28,360 have known. And Marv was right, though I didn't know 223 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:31,799 he'd said it these last years, like a hamster in 224 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,799 a cage, that was me running around and around, going nowhere. 225 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:40,279 I wouldn't mind so much, but Esther wouldn't have children, 226 00:10:40,399 --> 00:10:43,360 not even a son to carry my name. There are 227 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:46,720 times lately, like when Abe Goldman is trying to chisel 228 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:51,679 on the patterns, when I find myself grabbing up Marv's shears, 229 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:56,399 and oh, I get such a pain in my chest. 230 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:57,759 Speaker 1: Everything goes black. 231 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:02,279 Speaker 4: By the time I see straight again, I'm I'm worried 232 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:08,360 what I might have done, Or like mornings I shave 233 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,000 with a with a straight razor which was my father's. 234 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:14,840 And sometimes like the morning after Rebecca needed her head dressing. 235 00:11:16,039 --> 00:11:19,120 Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, you plan to spend all day in there 236 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,600 I'm shaving. How come you're up so early? 237 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 7: The noise you make getting out of bed? Who could sleep? 238 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:25,639 Speaker 4: Listen? 239 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 7: Could you spend a pot of room a moment? 240 00:11:27,919 --> 00:11:29,159 Speaker 1: Can't you wait till I'm finished? 241 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 7: It isn't me, it's Rebecca. 242 00:11:31,879 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: What's with Rebecca? 243 00:11:32,919 --> 00:11:36,759 Speaker 4: He sic? Tous step Okay, Okay, I'll shave in the kitchen. 244 00:11:38,159 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 6: How come you're up so early? 245 00:11:40,399 --> 00:11:43,759 Speaker 4: Well today today, Marv and I are trying the new 246 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,519 subway which just opens. Just to be on the safe side, 247 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:47,320 we're leaving early. 248 00:11:47,519 --> 00:11:49,919 Speaker 7: I Betty you come home early one of these evenings. 249 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: Now, what's in it for me? All right? 250 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:55,279 Speaker 4: All right, Ester, don't get mad? Can't I make a joke? Look, 251 00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:56,720 you want to have a cup of coffee with. 252 00:11:56,639 --> 00:11:57,799 Speaker 1: Me before I leave? What for? 253 00:11:57,919 --> 00:11:59,360 Speaker 6: As soon as I get Rebecca straight? 254 00:11:59,480 --> 00:11:59,519 Speaker 1: Not? 255 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,399 Speaker 6: Ain't even my beauty sleep? Have your coffee at the office. 256 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:03,879 Speaker 4: You used to make it for me when we were 257 00:12:03,879 --> 00:12:04,480 first married. 258 00:12:04,639 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 7: I used to do a lot of things before I 259 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:10,159 discovered what a nothing I married. Go into the kitchen, 260 00:12:10,279 --> 00:12:16,600 shave well, you and let Rebecca use the lady's room. 261 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 4: The lady's room. That's what it comes down to. Now 262 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,759 I'm a stranger in my own house. I finished shaving, 263 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,759 nicking myself twice without a mirror. Then I cleaned the razor, 264 00:12:27,799 --> 00:12:33,000 and I thought about it, how quick it would be, 265 00:12:33,639 --> 00:12:37,000 and as long as it was sharp enough, how painless? 266 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: And then with a gasp, I thought of myself. 267 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,799 Speaker 4: For whom what am I thinking? 268 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 8: Me? 269 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 4: Them all three of us, and then all of a sudden, 270 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,840 All of a sudden, I had the pain in my chest, 271 00:12:51,840 --> 00:13:01,159 and I wondered indigestion. Guess take a buyers finished shaving 272 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:02,399 and get to work out in. 273 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:08,559 Speaker 1: So, how do you like it the subway? Who knows? 274 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,080 You same sardines packed in a new can. Here you 275 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,480 got more room to breathe. It's still the same air. 276 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,039 You want to call it that, you know? I thought 277 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,960 maybe there'd be less people. The guy could have one wish, 278 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:24,200 I say. 279 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:27,440 Speaker 4: I said, if a guy could have one wish, it 280 00:13:27,519 --> 00:13:29,200 would be not to travel Queens. 281 00:13:28,919 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: To New York and back in the rush hour. Eh, 282 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,279 it's not so bad, kind? Everything else in to you? Maybe? 283 00:13:34,519 --> 00:13:37,039 What else have I got to look forward to? Either end? 284 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:40,799 Now I've been meaning to talk to you. Know I'm 285 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:41,120 not here. 286 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:43,679 Speaker 4: You couldn't hear yourself, but everybody else could. 287 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 1: Hey, what, here's a station we're passing. 288 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,879 Speaker 4: Uh thirty fifth and Neely Avenue. 289 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:54,679 Speaker 1: Hey, how come the train doesn't stop? 290 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 3: Express? I guess I didn't see the station. 291 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 4: Here as the nose on your face, I wasn't looking. 292 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:04,960 What's the differen What could it matter in your life? Anyways? 293 00:14:07,639 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 2: What could it matter in Alvin Freiberg's life, not a thing, 294 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:16,559 just another subway station passed by an express train that 295 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:21,720 didn't stop there. Thirty fifths and neely. From the first 296 00:14:21,879 --> 00:14:25,519 moment he read the designation, he knew that sometime he 297 00:14:25,679 --> 00:14:28,960 had to get off the subway there. I'll return with 298 00:14:29,039 --> 00:14:42,960 that two shortly. Then it wasn't a good day in 299 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:44,519 Alvin Freiberg's life. 300 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:46,159 Speaker 1: The patterns for. 301 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,559 Speaker 2: The new styles were hired to work out seventy yards 302 00:14:50,559 --> 00:14:53,879 of cloth on a boat. You have to lay out 303 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:57,679 the patterns so that you waste the least amount of material. 304 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,360 If you're a first rate f you don't cut corners. 305 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:07,320 But if you're just an ordinary firm and times are hard, 306 00:15:08,039 --> 00:15:11,240 there's a little temptation to short change. 307 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:14,559 Speaker 1: I can't do it, mister Goldman, are you telling me? 308 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:17,759 I brought you up in the business. So we'll be a. 309 00:15:17,679 --> 00:15:20,879 Speaker 4: Little tight with the seams. We'll still make up a 310 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:23,799 little tight. Look here under the arms and on the sides. 311 00:15:24,039 --> 00:15:26,000 A woman buys the wrong size, so she takes a 312 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,120 deep breath and the seams go. 313 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:31,120 Speaker 1: That's her problem. She should buy the right size. 314 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,799 Speaker 4: To begin with, you know, women, That's what always made 315 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,279 our line they could breathe a little buying undersize? Are 316 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,840 you telling me how to merchandise? Look? 317 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 1: I make patterns, that's all I know. 318 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,919 Speaker 4: I made them before you are out of public school. 319 00:15:44,399 --> 00:15:46,399 I asked you to cut a few corners, and you 320 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:48,519 have to give me an argument. I want only the 321 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,480 best for us, mister Goldman, the. 322 00:15:50,559 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: Same for me. But we got to go at the time. 323 00:15:52,919 --> 00:15:56,600 I don't like a cheat. Who's cheat? We cut a 324 00:15:56,679 --> 00:15:57,879 corner here and there? 325 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:00,679 Speaker 4: What are you a conscience for the world? 326 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: You're better than anyone else? Damn? Maybe he was right? 327 00:16:08,879 --> 00:16:10,399 What was I? 328 00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:13,279 Speaker 4: I sat there piecing the jigsaw patterns on a bolt 329 00:16:13,279 --> 00:16:17,639 of cloth, and I wondered myself. Let some customer lift 330 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:19,759 her arm and split a seam, or eat too much 331 00:16:19,759 --> 00:16:20,720 and have the zippers split? 332 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:24,240 Speaker 1: Why should I care? What did I have left? No 333 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:26,799 pride at home? Why try to have any at work? 334 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 4: Even Marv couldn't shake me while we waited for the 335 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,039 subway home. 336 00:16:30,879 --> 00:16:33,879 Speaker 1: Why'd you knock alunda Ah? What's the difference? Marv? He 337 00:16:33,919 --> 00:16:35,720 wants to cut short? How can I stop him? 338 00:16:35,799 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 4: It never pays off? And what you lay out I 339 00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:40,000 gotta cut you know? I want you to make me mad? 340 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: Stand that. But now what's the fight for? These days? 341 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,600 We're lucky to have a job. That's all the business 342 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:49,159 means to you, tell you the truth, nothing means much 343 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:54,080 to me. I'm tired. You well, you got something to 344 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:59,120 protect it as I see, grab it. Come on, stand 345 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,240 you need it more than me. Now sit down, will you? Okay? 346 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:02,919 Any I do? 347 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 4: But I wanted to ask the conductor of one of 348 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,559 the guards about that station. 349 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:10,400 Speaker 1: What station you know? But when we don't stop at 350 00:17:10,519 --> 00:17:14,960 the thirty fifth early line? Who cares me? Why? I 351 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:18,160 don't know? Just just something crazy? You wouldn't remember? Why 352 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:19,039 wouldn't I remember? 353 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 7: Oh? 354 00:17:19,799 --> 00:17:22,039 Speaker 1: I can tell you? But what do I want to do? 355 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,839 Broadcast a secret at the top of my lungs? Wait 356 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,480 to a home? Okay, okay, it's hard to hear you anyway. 357 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:28,440 Read your paper. 358 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,519 Speaker 4: I sat a little while with my eyes closed, the 359 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:37,279 tags in my chest again right through the back. The 360 00:17:37,319 --> 00:17:41,039 record of the subway seemed very far away, and then 361 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:44,279 I glanced at the paper in my lape, just to 362 00:17:44,279 --> 00:17:49,839 skip over the headlines. General Charles de Gaull takes over 363 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,160 premiership of friends. 364 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:58,400 Speaker 1: Huh, so let them? Or do I care? What the gall? Oh? 365 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,039 He's dead. He's long dead. I look again at the newspaper, 366 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:09,319 over the date June first, nineteen fifty eight. 367 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 4: I started to get Marvel's attention, but just then I 368 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,240 realized that we were slowing down. Ready to stop, I 369 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:17,799 twisted to look out the window. 370 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: Thirty fifth and nearly I had to push and shot 371 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:23,039 to get off. 372 00:18:24,599 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 4: I was the only one. I went through the gate. 373 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,759 There was a long flight of steps to the street. 374 00:18:32,519 --> 00:18:37,119 But my pain was gone, my legs. I felt twenty 375 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,000 years younger, so did all of me. I could fear 376 00:18:40,079 --> 00:18:42,839 my heart lift reach out, expecting something. 377 00:18:43,759 --> 00:18:48,440 Speaker 1: I was right. I came out of the street, and well, 378 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,599 it was just before sunset. 379 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:55,759 Speaker 4: Everything was bathed in a rosy glow, a collar you 380 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:56,759 couldn't forget. 381 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: And waiting for me was Alvin two subways. 382 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 8: I waited. I thought, maybe I've missed your train. 383 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 4: You know the rush hours, Sarah, But why should you 384 00:19:07,759 --> 00:19:08,319 wait for me? 385 00:19:09,279 --> 00:19:12,440 Speaker 8: Why does any woman wait for her man? Love? 386 00:19:13,519 --> 00:19:16,079 Speaker 9: Besides, I was shopping near here, at the market, so 387 00:19:16,519 --> 00:19:17,839 why not give you a surprise. 388 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: I'll carry it. Hey, this is this is the old neighborhood. 389 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,079 Speaker 8: Why so surprised? 390 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:33,079 Speaker 1: Thirty fifth? All right, but nearly, that's not near us. 391 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 9: Oh wa, it's a new subway, so it's a little 392 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,480 longer walk than the old stuff. What's the difference when 393 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:40,279 a person is young? 394 00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 1: The way I feel? 395 00:19:41,799 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 4: So? 396 00:19:43,279 --> 00:19:45,799 Speaker 9: Why do we have to stand talking so much? Come on, 397 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:46,640 let's go home. 398 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, home, Yeah, give. 399 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 8: Me your hand. Let's just walk like we used to. 400 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 4: You know, I don't know what's so good tonight? It 401 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,200 seems so special. It is special. 402 00:19:58,839 --> 00:19:59,640 Speaker 1: What's for dinner? 403 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,519 Speaker 8: I shouldn't tell you. I should just surprise you. 404 00:20:02,759 --> 00:20:04,039 Speaker 1: So surprise me. 405 00:20:05,319 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 8: Maybe I won't if you sound so. 406 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,319 Speaker 4: Indifferent, who's indifferent? 407 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 9: Well you'll find out anyway it Strawberry blinches with sour dream. 408 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 8: You want to leave me for another woman? 409 00:20:16,519 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 4: I want to take you in my arms right here 410 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,039 on thirty third Street and hugg. 411 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:21,839 Speaker 8: Oh you better not. 412 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:22,839 Speaker 4: I'll call the cops. 413 00:20:23,799 --> 00:20:35,119 Speaker 9: No, just wait till we get home. You want coffee 414 00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:36,160 or glass of tea? 415 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 1: I just want you. Come. I sit by me on 416 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:40,839 the couch. 417 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:43,559 Speaker 8: I'm not sure I could trust you. 418 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,240 Speaker 4: There's more than one kind of love, Sarah. 419 00:20:46,599 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: This is just old people quiet, just to touch, to know, 420 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:53,279 to feel that you're there and I'm next to you. 421 00:20:53,720 --> 00:21:02,559 Speaker 8: Come on, sit, maybe just a little because you have 422 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:02,960 to go. 423 00:21:03,279 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 1: What do you mean how come I have to go? 424 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 8: Don't ask questions, Alvin. Let's take what we got. 425 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 1: But this is my home. I'm not leaving. 426 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 8: You have to leave. Answer me one thing first. 427 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 1: Anything. 428 00:21:14,799 --> 00:21:17,720 Speaker 8: You won't let whatever happens change you. 429 00:21:18,599 --> 00:21:22,279 Speaker 9: If you'll stay the way you are, Why should I change? 430 00:21:22,559 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 8: Supposing I wasn't alive, Oh, Sarah. 431 00:21:26,319 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: Then I wouldn't be alive either. 432 00:21:28,799 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 9: It isn't always that easy to die, Sarah, Sarah. 433 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:35,759 Speaker 1: What are you talking about? 434 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 9: Promise me, darling, if anything happens, just keep on being 435 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:46,079 my same, loving kind gentle. 436 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 8: Alvin, What crazy talk is this? 437 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 4: I'm Alvin Freiburg. I'm thirty years old. If I don't 438 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:53,960 know what I am now, I'm in sad condition. 439 00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:56,039 Speaker 8: I'm only thinking of the future. 440 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,079 Speaker 1: With the future we're living now. 441 00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:03,759 Speaker 8: That's just the trouble, Darling, were not and I beg you. 442 00:22:04,759 --> 00:22:09,279 Speaker 9: Whatever happens, don't let anything change you between now. 443 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:19,200 Speaker 1: Wake up, Alvin, I'll stop. I gotta get off the subway. 444 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:21,240 What I already did? 445 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,119 Speaker 4: I mean, I mean when we stopped at thirty fifth. 446 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,599 Come on, Alvin, you've been sound asleep since we left Manhattan. 447 00:22:28,079 --> 00:22:35,200 Let's get it out of a sling and on the way. 448 00:22:36,039 --> 00:22:38,160 What are you talking about? You got off the subway 449 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:38,880 on the way home. 450 00:22:39,079 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: I did at thirty fifth and nearly got a hole 451 00:22:41,759 --> 00:22:42,279 in the head. 452 00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 4: You were asleep by fifty seventh Street, Manhattan, and you 453 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:46,599 never woke up till we hit Flushing. 454 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 1: I didn't. 455 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:50,799 Speaker 4: I didn't get off and see Sarah, Sarah, my wife. 456 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,599 Speaker 1: It was a dream. It was a dream. You were tired, 457 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,720 You went to sleep, and you had a dream. Oh, 458 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:01,480 such a dream of you know, it was real, just 459 00:23:01,519 --> 00:23:03,759 like it used to be. But he listened. 460 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 4: I didn't get off of that station to train doesn't 461 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,480 stop there, aw, it did in my dream. If it 462 00:23:10,519 --> 00:23:15,039 could only be like that, could I say something to 463 00:23:15,079 --> 00:23:16,319 you which is none of my business? 464 00:23:16,559 --> 00:23:19,559 Speaker 1: Or a friend like you, you could say anything. I'm worried 465 00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:22,079 about you. Yeah, that makes the two of us. I 466 00:23:22,119 --> 00:23:24,400 think you should see a doctor. What could a headshrink? 467 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,440 It tell me that I don't know already. I didn't 468 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:29,920 mean a psychiatrist. I meant a doctor doctor who means him. 469 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 4: I'm healthy, but I could be if I had the chance. 470 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,000 I was thinking about you should excuse the expression your 471 00:23:36,039 --> 00:23:36,720 home life. 472 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: Now you should excuse the expression. 473 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 4: All right, Alvin, you ever hear the French painter called 474 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:43,720 gogang as? 475 00:23:43,759 --> 00:23:45,000 Speaker 1: Sure? You know what he did? 476 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 4: He went to Tahiti or somewhere, and he well, he 477 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:51,480 painted pictures were First off, he was a banker and 478 00:23:51,559 --> 00:23:54,960 he was unhappy, so he separated from his wife and 479 00:23:55,079 --> 00:23:55,880 just took off. 480 00:23:56,279 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 1: Are you trying to tell me something? Yeah? 481 00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:03,519 Speaker 4: Who likes Esther? Do you are married to her? You 482 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:05,519 were married to Sarah. 483 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:06,359 Speaker 1: I was different. 484 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,519 Speaker 4: Sure it was everybody loved Sarah, but Esther? 485 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,160 Speaker 1: Who likes Esther? You got to say it out loud, 486 00:24:16,559 --> 00:24:20,400 not even me? I wish she was dead. You don't 487 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,200 have to go that far. Why don't you just walk 488 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:26,640 out on her? What happened to Rebecca? That's your problem. 489 00:24:26,759 --> 00:24:30,000 They're driving you crazy, the two of them. Rachel and me. 490 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 4: We only live downstairs and they're driving us around the corner. 491 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,200 Why don't we all get up from under? 492 00:24:35,279 --> 00:24:36,279 Speaker 1: You're not going to renew early? 493 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:41,079 Speaker 4: How ow? I ain't talking as a landlord, but as 494 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:44,720 a friend. Rachel and me we can make out, but 495 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:46,279 we want to save you from what. 496 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:50,519 Speaker 1: But we're almost home now. You take a good look 497 00:24:50,559 --> 00:24:54,799 at yourself, do a little thinking. You got a dingling 498 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:59,200 hung around your neck. I'm your buddy. What else can 499 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:03,559 I say? Marv? I don't know what to answer you. 500 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:05,119 I don't blame you. 501 00:25:05,839 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 4: I don't know how I had the guts to say 502 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,880 all I said to you. Yeah, I'll see you seven 503 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,279 point thirty in the morning. We'll walk to the subway. 504 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:25,599 After Marv went in, I waited a moment in the dark, Sarah, 505 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,359 or was it a dream? I had a crazy notion 506 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,400 that grew more real as the pain in my chest 507 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,279 started up again, that I could go back there. All 508 00:25:37,319 --> 00:25:39,599 I had to do was stop the train and get 509 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:44,920 off at thirty fifth and nearly except except I had 510 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,119 to fix everything right to leap behind. 511 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: A man can't just. 512 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 4: Walk out on everything like that. That fella go again, he. 513 00:25:52,079 --> 00:25:54,880 Speaker 1: Was a genius. I'm just a slip. 514 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 7: Yeah, al then you in there again. 515 00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:03,839 Speaker 8: What are you doing? 516 00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 4: I'm shaving ten o'clock in the night and you're shaving. 517 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 1: I'm coming it, so come in. The door is open. 518 00:26:09,839 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 7: Why are you shaving this time of night? 519 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,599 Speaker 4: Well, the morning traffic gets so heavy. I thought maybe 520 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,839 i'd take a load off of it. 521 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,319 Speaker 7: I don't understand you, Alvin Freiburg, Well say something. 522 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,599 Speaker 1: What am I to say? I don't think he ever did. 523 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,440 Why he asked me to say something? I said it. 524 00:26:26,519 --> 00:26:28,559 Speaker 7: I didn't ask to be insulting insulty. 525 00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:29,519 Speaker 6: You said I. 526 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,079 Speaker 7: Didn't understand you, Well you think you do. I certainly 527 00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:35,400 don't understand a man shaving ten o'clock at night and 528 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,680 tying up the only bathroom in the house. 529 00:26:37,799 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 4: I shave in the morning. I'm in the way too. 530 00:26:40,319 --> 00:26:42,240 What should I do? Shave at the garment house? 531 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 8: Shon't have to make a think? 532 00:26:44,079 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: Who is making a think? 533 00:26:45,279 --> 00:26:45,400 Speaker 9: You? 534 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,480 Speaker 1: I was just trying to make things easy. 535 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:48,759 Speaker 6: Don't give me that, Alvin. 536 00:26:48,839 --> 00:26:51,079 Speaker 7: You just try to make things a problem because me 537 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:52,720 and Rebecca haven't ever been good. 538 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 6: Enough for you. 539 00:26:53,559 --> 00:26:54,440 Speaker 1: Did I ever say that? 540 00:26:54,519 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 6: That's what you think? 541 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:56,079 Speaker 9: Sarah? 542 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,559 Speaker 7: She was so great your first wife, nobody could live 543 00:26:58,599 --> 00:26:58,920 up to it. 544 00:26:59,039 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: You leave Sarah out. I brought her in. 545 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,519 Speaker 6: I just don't try to fool me. 546 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,319 Speaker 7: Ever since we were married, you compared the two of us. 547 00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: That is not true. 548 00:27:07,079 --> 00:27:10,480 Speaker 7: Don't try to pull the wool over my eyes. I 549 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:13,680 know what I know, and let me tell you something, 550 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:17,319 Alvin Freiberg, your first wife was a nothing. If you 551 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:19,400 had stayed with her, you'd still be a gofer for 552 00:27:19,519 --> 00:27:24,000 mister Goldman, running errands, getting coffee, pushing breast racks, a 553 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,880 forty year old office boy without my connections and my family. 554 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,519 Speaker 9: So don't you ever forget it? 555 00:27:29,559 --> 00:27:31,880 Speaker 1: That is true. I was a cutter before. 556 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 8: You don't made. 557 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,799 Speaker 7: Me laugh with that Sarah soft in the head about 558 00:27:36,799 --> 00:27:39,119 how great you'd be. She couldn't see a future in 559 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:39,839 any dress. 560 00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:44,480 Speaker 6: Cut Alvin, Alvin, don't hold that razor like that? 561 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:45,599 Speaker 7: Alvin? 562 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,039 Speaker 6: What are you thinking about? 563 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:55,160 Speaker 1: You ever? Mention Sarah's name to me again? Don't chew ever? 564 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 7: Godsn are you crazy or something? I was just trying 565 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,359 to bring you the senses now, don't take a sense 566 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,119 about Sarah's there has been dead for sixteen years. 567 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:07,559 Speaker 4: How can you leave me alone? 568 00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,799 Speaker 1: You and Rebecca? You leave me alone? Or I don't 569 00:28:09,799 --> 00:28:10,480 know what I'm gonna do? 570 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 7: What are you and a crazy man? 571 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,960 Speaker 1: As friend of the moment? I'm yes, yes, I love me. 572 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,599 Speaker 4: You, you, you and your Niking sister. 573 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 8: You get out. 574 00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 4: For the first time in her life, esther knuckle under 575 00:28:31,319 --> 00:28:35,759 to me. She fled from a bathroom in terror, and 576 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:41,519 as she slammed the door shut behind her, I I 577 00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:46,200 I stopped in terror myself because I realized that I 578 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,880 had advanced on her. With the razor in my hand, 579 00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:53,559 held like a weapon. I couldn't kid myself that I 580 00:28:53,559 --> 00:28:55,680 didn't want to use it against her and her sister. 581 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:02,319 And suddenly, all alone, I started to shake from head 582 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:02,799 to foot. 583 00:29:02,839 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: What had I become? 584 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 4: Because I knew that I knew that I was near 585 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,119 the end of control, and if something didn't happen, I 586 00:29:11,119 --> 00:29:11,839 would move. 587 00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:15,119 Speaker 1: My mind, my mind. 588 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,559 Speaker 4: And destroy both of these women as surely as they 589 00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:20,640 had been destroying. 590 00:29:20,039 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 1: Me day by day. 591 00:29:24,119 --> 00:29:28,039 Speaker 4: For the last fifteen years. 592 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 2: The wrong marriage, two selfish women driving against a quiet 593 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:38,880 and simple man. 594 00:29:39,799 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: The day by day. 595 00:29:40,799 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 2: Deterioration of what had once been a human relationship is 596 00:29:45,039 --> 00:29:50,799 as devastating as the Chinese water torture, and as inescapable 597 00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:56,880 without violent reaction or some miracle to end it, which 598 00:29:57,000 --> 00:30:02,400 is the deciding factor? Back with that solution shortly when 599 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:18,720 I return with Act three. The Dictionary definition of tragedy 600 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:23,759 is the downfall or destruction of some great or noble 601 00:30:23,839 --> 00:30:29,559 figure because of some flaw or fatal weakness. But surely 602 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:32,440 the fate of a simple man living a life of 603 00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:38,960 quiet and utter despair misunderstood unappreciated and starved for a 604 00:30:39,079 --> 00:30:42,839 kind of love he had once known is just as tragic. 605 00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 4: And when he finds himself with his back to the. 606 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: Wall, how desperate might he become. 607 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:55,799 Speaker 2: Let's watch Alvin Freiberg, who might be you or I 608 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,839 or any of us who sees no hope of escape. 609 00:30:59,039 --> 00:31:03,759 Let's watch him face his problem and find its solution. 610 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,960 The next day, I woke up early, even earlier than usual, 611 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,480 with a gut feeling that I'd reached the end of 612 00:31:13,519 --> 00:31:17,160 my rope, just. 613 00:31:17,119 --> 00:31:18,079 Speaker 1: Like any other morning. 614 00:31:18,519 --> 00:31:23,079 Speaker 4: That's just snoring like a walritz beside me, same heavy 615 00:31:23,119 --> 00:31:26,200 feeling in my chest. Why should it surprise me? My 616 00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:30,160 heart was dead already fifteen years. I turned off the 617 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,559 alarm clock, checked the time automatically, and went into the 618 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:36,039 bathroom half an hour early. 619 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: I reached for my razor. All of a sudden, I'm thinking, what. 620 00:31:43,759 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 4: Kind of a fool are you? 621 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,759 Speaker 1: You're shaved already last night. 622 00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:53,079 Speaker 4: Then I said to myself, al then you know that, 623 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,599 So what are you doing with a razor in your hand? 624 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,359 Speaker 1: I knew I didn't have to ask that quest. I 625 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,559 was desperate. Who was I kidding? 626 00:32:04,359 --> 00:32:07,799 Speaker 4: I couldn't face another day the way I lived even 627 00:32:07,839 --> 00:32:11,039 without hearing the mester's snores were sounding in my ears. 628 00:32:11,359 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 1: I could hear her back as whine what would she 629 00:32:14,599 --> 00:32:15,279 have today? 630 00:32:16,039 --> 00:32:19,640 Speaker 4: And also a thrit's indigestion, a something which wouldn't have 631 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,039 a name anything. 632 00:32:21,079 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: The driver to a doctor so he could reassure her 633 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:29,400 or try to the razor. The razor would end all this. 634 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,960 Speaker 4: I was like a like a man walking in his 635 00:32:33,079 --> 00:32:35,920 sleep with the razor in my hand. 636 00:32:36,839 --> 00:32:41,039 Speaker 1: I walked into the bedroom. 637 00:32:41,039 --> 00:32:44,079 Speaker 7: Well, then at six o'clock, what are you doing now? 638 00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: I hear? I couldn't I couldn't sleep. 639 00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,559 Speaker 6: What's the razor for? 640 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 7: You got five o'clock shadow in the morning? 641 00:32:51,559 --> 00:32:53,799 Speaker 1: Oh that's the you know, that's the first joke you 642 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:54,400 ever made. 643 00:32:54,559 --> 00:32:57,799 Speaker 8: Who cares about jokes this hour? What's the razor for? 644 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,319 Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I 645 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,359 forgot I shaved last night. I guess I. 646 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,920 Speaker 7: Put it away and come back to bed. 647 00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:08,279 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, Esther, I don't know. I 648 00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:09,799 don't know what came over me all of a sudden. 649 00:33:09,839 --> 00:33:11,799 Speaker 7: I'll just come back to bed and don't wake up 650 00:33:11,799 --> 00:33:12,480 the whole high. 651 00:33:12,559 --> 00:33:13,599 Speaker 1: I don't feel sleepy. 652 00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 4: Maybe I'll make a cup of coffee. 653 00:33:15,599 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 7: I don't understand you, but do what you want as 654 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,359 long as you don't wake up Rebecca and me. I 655 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,160 couldn't care less. 656 00:33:26,759 --> 00:33:33,440 Speaker 4: I couldn't care less. I don't understand you. It was 657 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,359 all there in those two sentences. And the coffee was bitter, 658 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,160 no matter how much sugar I dumped in, And so 659 00:33:39,359 --> 00:33:42,079 was my life. It's the way a good half of 660 00:33:42,079 --> 00:33:48,200 the world, maybe more live. An hour and a half later, 661 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,279 walking to the subway, how different could I feel, except 662 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,119 that Marv was a friend, and with him I could 663 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:02,440 talk a little? Hey, nice risk morning. Eh, that's a 664 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,519 good word. You should know me by now. I wonder 665 00:34:05,559 --> 00:34:07,400 you even bothered or walk to the subway with me? 666 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,280 What are you giving me? Al Fribury twenty five years. 667 00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,119 Speaker 1: We're friends. Why would I walk out on h I 668 00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:15,559 ain't the same man I once was. 669 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 4: Look when was the last time you saw a doctor? 670 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,199 I don't know, three maybe four years? You ought to 671 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,079 have a check up, but four Who cares? 672 00:34:24,079 --> 00:34:27,159 Speaker 1: Anyway? My regular doctor died a couple of years ago. 673 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,519 Speaker 4: A person in our age should have a check up 674 00:34:29,559 --> 00:34:30,920 once a year, stay alive. 675 00:34:31,039 --> 00:34:34,039 Speaker 1: What else? Supposing you get to the point where you 676 00:34:34,079 --> 00:34:37,320 don't care. Huh, oh, that pends it. I'm going to 677 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:39,440 make an appointment with my doctor to see you. Don't 678 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:41,320 waste the time. I'm ready to waste more than that. 679 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:42,320 You'll see him. 680 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,639 Speaker 4: If I have to drag you there, we'll go at lunchtime. Oh, 681 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:47,559 give me the arguments. I'll pay, just my own piece 682 00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:51,559 of mind, marv Ma. You're a good friend. Okay, okay, 683 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:54,960 I'll see your doctor. But you know he can't help me. 684 00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:56,679 And we got one thing straight. 685 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:08,679 Speaker 1: I pay, I pay. Come on tomorrow to some way. 686 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,519 Speaker 4: Would you get the ants out of your pants out? 687 00:35:11,599 --> 00:35:14,159 So we changed it Ronaldy Plaza to a local. What 688 00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:15,760 are you gonna do when you get the thirty fifth 689 00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:17,840 and nearly got to get off? Go upstairs and. 690 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,320 Speaker 1: We get off. We could be late for work. You 691 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:19,920 don't have to come. 692 00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:22,039 Speaker 3: Listen the way you're acting as a friend. 693 00:35:22,159 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: I wouldn't leave you for a minute. I ain't got 694 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,440 enough mucksy to argue. Anyway. Here it comes. 695 00:35:26,599 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 4: How do you know I can't see I know pair 696 00:35:29,159 --> 00:35:31,400 they see coming into the city. 697 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,559 Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but we're not slowing down. Well, we've got 698 00:35:34,599 --> 00:35:37,719 to slow down there. This is a local. Some train 699 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:39,119 has got to stop. 700 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,760 Speaker 4: Maybe there's some other local, but this one isn't gonna stop, 701 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,239 or there is a station there isn't there russo it says, 702 00:35:45,519 --> 00:35:48,360 it says thirty fifth and nearly don't. Yeah, that's what 703 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,159 it says, or said, We're already passed it. For some reason, 704 00:35:52,199 --> 00:35:54,599 trains just don't stop there. But I told you last 705 00:35:54,679 --> 00:35:55,880 night I was a dream out. 706 00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,760 Speaker 3: I was standing right over you, and we passed right 707 00:35:58,760 --> 00:35:59,480 through as usual. 708 00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:01,400 Speaker 1: You didn't go off, nobody got off. 709 00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,079 Speaker 3: Whatever this station is, that just isn't a train that 710 00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:04,840 stops here. 711 00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:09,920 Speaker 1: I didn't feel well that morning. 712 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 4: My mind wasn't working properly, or I might have thought 713 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,840 of calling the transit authority. But everything I did was automatic. 714 00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:21,519 I laid out my patterns, and then at lunch I 715 00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:23,639 went to the doctor with Marvin leading me by the 716 00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,719 hand like I was a baby. It was nearly quitting 717 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,519 time before I got back from the doctor, and Goldman 718 00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:34,320 was fit to be tied. So why are you gonna 719 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:39,000 claim now, Alvin seniority. You take almost the whole afternoon 720 00:36:39,039 --> 00:36:41,480 off without a whirl. I was to the doctor. 721 00:36:41,639 --> 00:36:45,679 Speaker 1: Fact you couldn't see him on your own time. Maybe 722 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,599 it was your head that needed examining. 723 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,400 Speaker 4: Look what you did here, and your friend mav already 724 00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:52,360 cut saw. 725 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,159 Speaker 1: What can we do? I'm in the factor's hands already. 726 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,079 But what is it? 727 00:36:57,159 --> 00:36:59,960 Speaker 4: Miss mister Goldman expected three more address? 728 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,480 Speaker 1: This is out of these bolts of cloth? 729 00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 4: Didn't I tell you to skimp on the pattern? I forgot? 730 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:07,639 How could you forget with that? 731 00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:09,840 Speaker 1: Look? I'm sorry. I went to the doctor. I only 732 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,320 the doctor. You'll give me heart failure. 733 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,079 Speaker 4: The whole line is a disaster before we even got 734 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:18,000 one dress. I might as well end up in bankruptcy 735 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:19,800 by your fire. 736 00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:23,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to see you again. You're lucky. 737 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,320 Speaker 4: I don't fire your friend, mister, don't give me any occupants. 738 00:37:28,119 --> 00:37:31,559 Speaker 1: Horror. It s quitting time. I'm in enough trouble with 739 00:37:31,559 --> 00:37:32,519 the union to begin with. 740 00:37:32,639 --> 00:37:37,079 Speaker 4: So let's close up. Maybe tomorrow, maybe next week. We 741 00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:43,360 won't open again. That's the way things die. Mar Mom, 742 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,360 I'm sorry, forget it, forget it. Let's have a fling. 743 00:37:48,119 --> 00:37:50,639 Even knows we need a lyft. Come on, I'll buy 744 00:37:50,679 --> 00:37:53,159 you a drink at Leven's before we take the subway home. 745 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:06,639 Speaker 1: Uh look, I am, look, I am, I don't know 746 00:38:06,639 --> 00:38:08,719 what I missed you. Good luck for the way it goes, 747 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:09,480 it don't matter. 748 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:14,079 Speaker 4: I'll get the severance, pay some pension and the beauty part. 749 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,599 Speaker 1: The insurance. But insurance, the life insurance got you to take 750 00:38:18,639 --> 00:38:21,000 care of Esther and Rebecca. What are you talking about? 751 00:38:21,039 --> 00:38:24,840 Life insurance? You made me see the doctor. Huh So 752 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:26,039 what did he say? 753 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:31,079 Speaker 4: Yeah, I got a that's something I ain't sure I 754 00:38:31,119 --> 00:38:37,159 know how to tell you that ventricular filibration. The doctor wondered, 755 00:38:37,199 --> 00:38:39,559 I should go in the hospital right away. So why 756 00:38:39,559 --> 00:38:41,920 didn't you WI eat up all the money in hospital. 757 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,320 I'll go home or rest. I haven't got a job anymore. 758 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,679 Speaker 1: Rest with Esther and Rebecca. I'll give it a try. 759 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:50,119 Thanks for the drink. 760 00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:53,880 Speaker 4: You wouldn't believe, Marvin, a glass of whiskey could make 761 00:38:53,920 --> 00:39:00,960 me feel so good. Come on, let's go home. Ob 762 00:39:01,079 --> 00:39:04,719 Mov's protests, we got into the subway. I did feel good, 763 00:39:05,159 --> 00:39:08,400 like I was young again, like I didn't care, and 764 00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,679 I had this crazy idea I was gonna try because 765 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:15,199 the possibility to find out would never come around again. 766 00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,440 I'm not gonna pass it ever again. 767 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,079 Speaker 1: A subway don't stop at this station? Why not? What 768 00:39:23,199 --> 00:39:23,599 do I know? 769 00:39:23,679 --> 00:39:24,079 Speaker 8: Why not? 770 00:39:24,199 --> 00:39:26,480 Speaker 1: There's gonna be a reason. So how come the conductor 771 00:39:26,519 --> 00:39:27,199 doesn't It's. 772 00:39:27,039 --> 00:39:29,920 Speaker 3: A brand new subway out call the transiss. 773 00:39:30,039 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 1: I never had the chance. 774 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,360 Speaker 4: Just the same here it comes thirty fifth and nearly 775 00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:34,880 this time. 776 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:42,960 Speaker 10: I gotta know, Alvin, wait, I gotta know. I gotta 777 00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:45,880 find out out. 778 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:46,400 Speaker 4: The doors open. 779 00:39:46,599 --> 00:39:49,559 Speaker 1: You can't open these. I'll get out between the far Wait. 780 00:39:49,599 --> 00:39:54,519 Speaker 5: Wait, wait, Alven, Wait hold the helven, hold it. 781 00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,039 Speaker 1: Just a minute, mister, what's going on here? You poorly 782 00:39:59,079 --> 00:40:02,400 emergency brain? Oh no, it was my friend. She wanted 783 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,079 to get off here. 784 00:40:03,199 --> 00:40:05,519 Speaker 4: Why I don't exactly know. 785 00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,440 Speaker 3: Why doesn't the train stop anyway? 786 00:40:07,519 --> 00:40:09,599 Speaker 4: But there's nothing up there but mud flats in an 787 00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:11,920 old city dump. Then what's the point of the station. 788 00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:14,480 The city is fitting in the dump. There's a big 789 00:40:14,519 --> 00:40:17,239 housing project going to go up there. I'll be finished 790 00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,639 for a couple of years, but they'll need to stop. 791 00:40:19,679 --> 00:40:19,880 Speaker 1: Then. 792 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,440 Speaker 4: Come on, we got to pick up your cookie friend. 793 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,880 He can't get out of here, it's all blocked up. 794 00:40:25,039 --> 00:40:27,400 Speaker 1: You're going to arrest him. Sure, he could have caused 795 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,440 a panic. I've got a lot of people hurt, that's 796 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,519 the matter with him. Anyway. 797 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,679 Speaker 4: I don't think I could explain to your officer except 798 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:44,679 it's his heart. Hello, Wilen, Sarah, you're waiting again. 799 00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:50,159 Speaker 9: This time I knew what's subway he behind? Come my darling, 800 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:52,320 Let's go home. 801 00:40:52,639 --> 00:40:53,559 Speaker 1: That's all I want. 802 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:59,079 Speaker 8: That's what you got this time for good. 803 00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:06,039 Speaker 4: See I told her there was no way out. Or 804 00:41:06,079 --> 00:41:10,119 what's he what's he lying there for? He gets fits 805 00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:10,559 or something? 806 00:41:11,559 --> 00:41:18,280 Speaker 1: No? No, he Uh just hasn't done well lately. You 807 00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,239 ain't just whishling Dixie. Yeah, I'm sorry to tell you, mister, 808 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:31,519 but your friend is dead. Heart attacker, Yeah, something like that. 809 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:34,800 I wonder what do you mean? 810 00:41:35,079 --> 00:41:35,199 Speaker 9: Uh? 811 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:41,800 Speaker 4: Just I hope he found what he wanted. And Uh, 812 00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:48,840 for the record, Guard, there's no doubt it was his heart. 813 00:41:49,679 --> 00:42:00,880 Speaker 2: Mm tragedy or something nearer to all of our lives 814 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:06,559 escape death, of course, is always tragic, But if you 815 00:42:06,639 --> 00:42:12,840 have belief in something beyond. Alvin Freiberg slippers on his feet, 816 00:42:13,199 --> 00:42:17,039 Sarah by his side, and something too delectable to name 817 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:20,840 cooking in the kitchen for dinner, is a happier man 818 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,519 dead than alive. 819 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:24,719 Speaker 1: I'll be back shortly. 820 00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:44,360 Speaker 2: It was Elizabeth Barrett Browning who wrote I love you 821 00:42:44,599 --> 00:42:51,960 with the breath, smiles tears of all my life. Alvin 822 00:42:52,079 --> 00:42:57,000 Freiberg could never have expressed himself so well, but beyond question, 823 00:42:57,599 --> 00:43:01,679 he felt as deeply for his Sarah as Elizabeth Barrett 824 00:43:01,679 --> 00:43:06,920 fell for Robert Browning. The quiet unnoticed ones love as 825 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,920 deeply and perhaps more securely than the great or famous. 826 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,800 Speaker 1: Let this be Alvin's epitheph and the end of his story. 827 00:43:18,079 --> 00:43:22,920 Speaker 2: Our cast included Norman Rose nat poland Carol Titel and 828 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,039 Briana Raeburn. The entire production was under the direction of 829 00:43:27,159 --> 00:43:35,000 Hyman Brown and now a preview of our next tale. 830 00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:37,159 Speaker 1: But John, this is the only time we can call. 831 00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,239 Speaker 2: When Dan Dingo at midnight, it's the only time he's 832 00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,519 able to hear the voice of mortal man and. 833 00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:50,559 Speaker 4: The clock just struck. Listen, he he's here, that's his voice. Shape, 834 00:43:50,559 --> 00:43:53,840 that's just an ego way or listen, will you go back? 835 00:43:53,960 --> 00:44:02,440 Speaker 1: Leslie? Who's sounds like Enop Frasier. He's come to to 836 00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:10,440 en must be a nightmare. Enough does drink an awful lot. 837 00:44:13,159 --> 00:44:17,840 Speaker 2: It's when Dan Dingo all right and justice is being done. 838 00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:27,119 Speaker 1: I don't think Enoch's crimes were that's the reason. Well, 839 00:44:27,519 --> 00:44:30,320 he's quiet now he's dead. 840 00:44:30,519 --> 00:44:34,440 Speaker 2: Radio Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by anheuser Busch Incorporated, 841 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,039 brewers of Budweiser. 842 00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:37,440 Speaker 1: This is E. G. 843 00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:40,920 Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our mystery theater for 844 00:44:41,039 --> 00:44:48,599 another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, pleasant dreams.