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Speaker 5: Welcome home, then, welcome home.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I can't embrace you, my dear wife, but my
arms seemed to be tightly strapped.
Speaker 6: To my sides.
Speaker 5: Doctor, order your attendance to release him. Release him.
Speaker 7: I'm strapping for Fred.
Speaker 2: That's better, much better.
Speaker 5: No, when you all please leave so I may be
alone with my husband?
Speaker 7: Yes, just of course, goodbye? Then come in.
Speaker 5: Now. Aren't you happy to be home?
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Speaker 2: Mary Latham has driven a long way that day to
visit her husband, and all through that long drive there
was one overwhelming and compelling thought in her mind. She
must get him out that place. The words mental institution
were too repugnant for her to mention even to think
she must get him out. It was the only way
she must do what she had secretly planned for over
a year.
Speaker 5: Fan, Will you look at me, I'm speaking to you.
Turn around her face me please, No, I thought you'd
be glad to see me.
Speaker 2: Yes, Fan, Yes, I'm glad, glad.
Speaker 4: To see you.
Speaker 5: Do you know why I've come?
Speaker 2: Is it rainy?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 2: Why do you always come to see me when it rains?
Speaker 5: That isn't so bad?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, rainy days you come? It always rains when you come.
Speaker 5: Would you rather I didn't come back? Yes, yes, don't come.
Speaker 6: Don't come.
Speaker 5: You don't mean that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: I want to do everything I can for you.
Speaker 2: You want to do everything you can to get my money.
That's unfair, unfair, I remember, I remember. You think I'm
so mixed up in my head that I don't remember.
Speaker 5: You tried every way.
Speaker 2: You could to get control of the estate, but you fail.
Speaker 5: Please, then you're wrong.
Speaker 2: Wrong. I was wrong to marry you.
Speaker 5: Don't say that. You know I could have divorced you.
Speaker 2: When I was but a way. Don't think you're protecting
my feelings.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 2: I know. I'm insane. You've told me. The doctors all agree.
Hopelessly insane, locked up for life. Go away, Mary, go away, leave.
Speaker 4: Me in peace.
Speaker 5: Would you like to come out?
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: Come out in my custody. I'll take responsibility, responsibility, and you.
I want to take care of you. I think you'll
be happier.
Speaker 2: Out out, exchanging one cell for another. What'll you do
have guards posted male nurses around the clock to watch me.
Speaker 5: No, you'll have attendance, but not God, if.
Speaker 2: You'd be taking a big risk, Mary, I'd tried to
kill you once. I'll take the risk and almost succeeded.
Speaker 5: I'll take the risk.
Speaker 7: Well, I can't help it at my courage, Missus Latham,
But I don't know that I can go along with
your plans.
Speaker 5: Dan isn't getting any better here, doctor, it's my impression
he's getting.
Speaker 7: Worse reports, Miss therapist can wait.
Speaker 5: We have a better chance in a more normal envirolence.
Speaker 7: My dear Missus Lathon, let me lay out the facts
for you. Your husband came to me in a very
serious condition. He was dangerous to society and dangerous to himself.
He displayed all the pathological symptoms of acute paranoid. Mister
Latham is a potential has it a latent time bomb?
The least little spark had caused an explosion.
Speaker 5: I got all this from you and others before. I
still feel that I could help him regain his foothold,
bring him back. I know he can become again the
man I loved and married.
Speaker 7: I'm afraid you get some romantic idea in your head.
Speaker 5: It's not some romantic ideas you call it. Things can
be done with love to heal him where all the
medical science of the world fails.
Speaker 7: Well, I must tell you that I shall oppose your plans.
Mister Latham. Will not leave this hospital if I can
help it.
Speaker 2: Huh well packed so soon not get in?
Speaker 4: Get in?
Speaker 2: Well, I had to go away.
Speaker 5: I expected it would no good.
Speaker 2: What's your next move?
Speaker 7: Baby?
Speaker 5: Start the car. Let's get out of here. This asylum
atmosphere has need to pressed enough already.
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, s hi, you're in there a long time.
Speaker 5: I had to make it look good. I had to
spend a little time with them.
Speaker 2: I'm still catching those imaginary birds in his room.
Speaker 5: No change, worse than ever. I think. Doctor tells me
he's fine, just fine.
Speaker 2: But they won't unlock the door of the padded sale right.
Speaker 5: Well, you're not funny.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, baby.
Speaker 5: I knew it wasn't going to be easy getting him out.
Speaker 2: Frankly, you know, I think you're looking for trouble happy,
aren't we. I mean having him behind those strong, heavy
institution doors is great with me, So why can't we
go on as we have been?
Speaker 5: Don't play stupid Willie. You know why I have to
get him out? I mean, hello, mister Rossitur.
Speaker 2: Oh, Missus Latham, sorry if I keepped you waiting my secretary.
Speaker 5: Right, all right, mister Rossitur, I didn't mind.
Speaker 4: Good, won't you?
Speaker 2: How can I help you?
Speaker 5: I saw van saturday?
Speaker 2: Oh well, how is the poor boy not good?
Speaker 5: In fact? I think for the place the home is
making him worse.
Speaker 2: Oh I am sorry to hear that. It's disheartening to
think of him there locked up like some wild creature
animal life. I was hoping you might have good news.
Speaker 5: Maybe I have, yes, but I'll need your help.
Speaker 2: My dear woman, you make counts on me to give
you all the help you need.
Speaker 5: Mister Rossitur, I propose to get him out out Oh.
Speaker 2: Well, and do you think that was if, as you say,
his trouble is worse?
Speaker 5: I intend to take him home where he belongs and
take care of him, bringing him back to our world.
Speaker 2: Well then it is a dangerous psychopathy. Doctors all agreed.
Speaker 5: I can manage him.
Speaker 2: What have you forgotten that he tried to kill me? No,
missus Latham. May I ask why you want to do this? Why?
Speaker 5: Because I love him and I want him back with me.
Hello Charles Rossiter. Oh, yes, mister Rossitur.
Speaker 2: About that matter of obtaining What about fans coming home?
Speaker 5: Yes, I went to the hospital yesterday. You what I
went to the hospital yesterday?
Speaker 6: Why? Why?
Speaker 5: Well, for several reasons, mister Rossiter, I can see no
reason for you to visit my husband.
Speaker 4: What when I saw you in my office, you said
you wanted his release.
Speaker 5: I can't see how your visit would facilitate that. Mister
Rossitur what I've found in my two tears as his attorney.
Speaker 4: And more than that, as his old friend.
Speaker 5: I still think you took more on your shoulders than
I had requested.
Speaker 6: Yes, I see, but the price Listen.
Speaker 5: To me, go ahead, I spoke, Yes.
Speaker 4: He doesn't want to come home.
Speaker 5: I know what's best for him, and I spoke to
his doctor too, and he's opposed to it. Yes, yes,
tell me about mister Rossiter. You are my attorney. You
are working for me. I told you what I wanted.
I asked you to prepare papers. I did not ask
you for your personal feelings in the matter. Then I
shall do whatever you think best good.
Speaker 4: And says that if he gets the chance, he will
kill you.
Speaker 5: You'll have to get your things and clear out of
the house for a while. WILLI clear out? They're bringing
him home today, and I don't want you around when
that happens.
Speaker 2: You know something, Mary, you should be in the institution.
I think you need psychiatric help as much as he does.
Oh really, yes, But this whole idea is crazy.
Speaker 5: You know he's dangerous.
Speaker 2: You don't love him, so what reasons do you have
to take the risk.
Speaker 5: It's all very simple to understand. I've told you before.
It's a little matter of money this.
Speaker 2: But you've got plenty of money.
Speaker 7: It's enough for both.
Speaker 5: Of us, enough for you, Willy. You have modest tastes.
But I feel like a child on a strict allowance,
and I hate it. All of Van's money was put
in trust for him by his parents before we were married.
Speaker 2: Did you know about his mental condition when.
Speaker 5: You were married? Of course I knew. His father told
me about him. However, it was thought to be a
mild and temporary condition at the time. It was only
after we were married that the condition worsened.
Speaker 6: Mary.
Speaker 2: But what money was there? You do what to expect.
The real money was locked up in a trust.
Speaker 5: I thought that after I was married to Van, and
especially after he became violently psychotic, that I could have
the trust set aside and the money put into my
hands to administer as I saw fit. No job, no
go unless he should die. Do you understand, Willie? Unless
he should die? Oh, doctor, I thought, where's my husband?
Speaker 7: He is here waiting in the car. May I speak
to you for a moment?
Speaker 5: Come in, come in?
Speaker 7: Well you've wont, Missus Latham. Your husband is being returned,
just waiting outside.
Speaker 5: So you've said, why not let him come in to
his home?
Speaker 7: It was necessary to bring two attendance with you, Missus Latham.
Speaker 5: Regulation No, it was.
Speaker 7: Necessary to control them. You brought him to you under restraint.
Speaker 5: I don't believe that's necessary. I saw him a week
or two ago. He was quite calm, under control.
Speaker 7: This is no longer the case, despite the fact that
he's under heavy sedation. He resisted violently when to where
he was going. Now, do you have the proper staff
to take care of him?
Speaker 5: Please don't concern yourself, doctor, I can manage.
Speaker 7: The two men I have with me are trained psychiatric nurses.
Speaker 5: I will have no need.
Speaker 7: I encourage you to keep them with you until he
becomes accustomed to a surrounding.
Speaker 5: Doctor. This is his home, he is accustomed, he is
familiar with it. There will be no problem.
Speaker 7: Very well, I have brought in read Ralph, bring him in.
I hope you won't regret this.
Speaker 5: Really, doctor, I find this conversation tedious and unproductive.
Speaker 2: Wow, my dear wife was so nice of you to
alight me.
Speaker 5: Welcome home, then, welcome home.
Speaker 2: That has a familiarly Sorry, I can't embrace you, but
my arms seem to be strapped tightly to my sides.
Speaker 5: Doctor, order your attendants to release him.
Speaker 7: Missus him, I'm strapping for it.
Speaker 4: That's better, much better.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: May I ask you all to leave so I can
be alone with my husband?
Speaker 7: Yes, of course, Missus Latham. Goodbye, v'an come.
Speaker 5: Man, well man, aren't you happy to be home?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, Mary, very happy, very happy.
Speaker 2: No, No, Mary Latham may have opened the legendary Pandora's box,
it isn't going to be quite as simple as she.
Speaker 6: Had envisioned it.
Speaker 2: In her lust for money, Mary has overlooked the danger
of turning a homicidal paranoid loose. I'll be back in
a moment with that two of our story.
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Speaker 2: Mary Latham was a headstrong, compulsive woman who had to
have her own way in everything.
Speaker 7: But she was beginning to.
Speaker 2: Wonder if perhaps she had reached out too far in
her nefarious scheme to get her hands on her husband's money.
Then she discovered, despite his mental illness, will not be
so easy to handle. The future cour of her actions
is still cloudy and ill to find. But there is
danger there, whether or not she knows it.
Speaker 5: He'll have Then, I've been trying to reach you all
the evening. Didn't they give you my messages.
Speaker 4: Plue, isn't the ritch?
Speaker 2: Mary has surprised me to find out they've even got
a switchboard in.
Speaker 4: This flea bag. And what's up?
Speaker 5: I want you to come here right away?
Speaker 4: What's nearly midnight?
Speaker 5: I want you to come. It's urgent. I can't talk
to you over the phone.
Speaker 4: Hurry sure, sure, I'll be there in twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: He was frightening. He started to laugh, and then he
lunged at me. If he could have caught me, he
would have strangled me. He fell, crashed through the glass table,
smashed the lamp. Yeah, he didn't get up, He just
lay there. He was heavily sedated when they brought him here.
It may have just caught up with him when he
lunged at me.
Speaker 2: Oh oh place, shirt looks like a tornado hit it.
Speaker 3: Where is he now?
Speaker 6: In there?
Speaker 5: I dragged him in and locked the door. Can you
get out easily through the window easily?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 2: If you can't hold on to me, don't you think
you should call the police? No, but I Mary, this
isn't a game. That guy in there is dangerous now
that said it. He wears all you to me.
Speaker 5: I don't get it.
Speaker 6: Look at you.
Speaker 2: You've got a nasty cut in your forehead. You've nearly
been strangled.
Speaker 5: Oh to the good, it's evidence for the police. I
want him to escape. I want the police to hunt
him down. I know Van, he won't give up if
they think he's dangerous. If he puts up too much
of a fight, he may be shot.
Speaker 2: Oh well, there's a lot of is there, baby. Now,
I'll give you another. If they catch him alive and healthy,
you'll never get another chance at it.
Speaker 5: Are you suggesting we do it here now? Huh?
Speaker 2: Well, what are you saying?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: I don't want to get mixed up, and you wouldn't.
Speaker 5: Run away, would you, Willy? I was only testing you.
The first idea is best. Let the police do it.
Speaker 2: That's the window in the next room. He's got mouths good.
Speaker 5: I'll give him an hour's start and then report it
to the police.
Speaker 2: What are you carrying your dress for?
Speaker 5: Making it look good? I got to put on a show.
The man is dangerous, officer homicidally. It was all my fault.
I thought that bringing him home, giving him my love
and kindness would cure him, bring him back to the
real world. I see now how wrong I've been.
Speaker 8: That's not that.
Speaker 5: Oh willy, who's in there?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: Speak up? Wherever we are? Eh? I got a twelve
gage shotgun in my hand, but I know how to
use it. You come out of there and you won't
be hurt. See here, I know you're in there. Mans
don't like strangers.
Speaker 2: Now you come out and come out quick, cold cold outside,
and we're in there to get warm.
Speaker 5: Well, you sure are a sight for sore eyes.
Speaker 6: Mister.
Speaker 5: Why you're old, tore up? You've been bleeding, been in
some kind of auto accident?
Speaker 6: No, so down.
Speaker 5: Oh, come on in the house. Now. What you need
is a good meal and smegs and bacon and a
couple of hot coffee. That something good?
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, I'm hungry.
Speaker 5: You want another cup of coffee?
Speaker 6: Mister?
Speaker 2: Oh no, thank you, I've had enough. That was a
very good I was very hungry. I'm very grateful.
Speaker 5: Oh well, don't mention it.
Speaker 2: I'd like to pay you for what your kindnessosity.
Speaker 5: Oh no, that is spoiled, young man. Now tell me
what kind of plans you have. You're going back your folks,
your family. No, Now, you don't fool an old lady
like me. You know I I've been around too long
and you're running away?
Speaker 2: Yes, who from the police, escape from jail? No, no,
why you're running. I can't tell you you you might
not want me to stay here if I told you
when I want to stay.
Speaker 5: Oh, now, look here, young man. I I'm all alone
in this house, and I'm an old lady, and I
I I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'll work for you for my keep. I I need
the time. You say, it'll only be for a little
while until I can get myself together. It.
Speaker 5: Well, if you're gonna be working for me, you better
get your rest now.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 5: Your room is the last one on the right, bed's
all made. Well, Well, there you are at last.
Speaker 2: Call get him get in.
Speaker 7: He kept me weave for nearly half hour.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, William, but I had so many things to do.
Speaker 2: Were we always driving around in a car? Why are
we always meeting on street corners?
Speaker 5: How's it surrounded by the police? How would it look
if they saw you coming in and going out at
all hours of the day and night?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, I saw your sob story in the paper
this morning. Since there wasn't it, I only wanted to
do what I thought was best for Van. I loved him,
and I wanted to cure him with my love.
Speaker 11: Aren't you overdoing him?
Speaker 5: Don't you see? I've got to establish myself as a
foolish but loving wife. I even wrote a long and
timeful letter of apology to the doctor.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know you sent a copy to the papers too.
Speaker 5: I read it. See what time is it?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's a few minutes after seven?
Speaker 5: Are the doctor Van's doctors on the news? Turn on
the radio?
Speaker 7: And that's a criticism ban of my policies. I want
to state here now that I oppose releasing my patient
Van Lath.
Speaker 4: An order was.
Speaker 7: Obtain in the courts forcing me to release him. I
have a letter here from missus Lathon, who is responsible
for this dangerous situation, apologizing for her act.
Speaker 4: I will say that it.
Speaker 7: Was all done without thoughts to the consequences, which are serious.
A madman is loose in our city, a dangerous paranoid.
He may look calmless, but I assure.
Speaker 4: You he's a killer.
Speaker 5: I want to hear, doc.
Speaker 4: If you see this man, you.
Speaker 7: Will find pictures of him in your local papers. Do
not try to apprehend him yourself, I repeat, do not
try to apprehend him yourself.
Speaker 5: Think anyone will all the police, please marry.
Speaker 7: A special number has been set up. It is five
five five two three two three. I repeat called five
five five two three two three. The police have been
armed with thoughts containing an almost instantaneous tranquilizer. It is
painless and human and will render.
Speaker 4: The man undercutton.
Speaker 5: I don't like that, why not. I don't want him
out with tranquilizers. I want him shut down.
Speaker 2: Man, Hey, you fella follow me?
Speaker 6: Follow me?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Me.
Speaker 5: I want to talk to you or.
Speaker 2: I thought i'd chop a little wood for the fire.
Speaker 5: H nice job you're doing. I got something to talk
over with.
Speaker 2: You, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 5: Now first you gotta stop calling me ma'am. Everybody around
these park has been calling me gammy for years. Yes,
and now I got to tell you something else. The
postman brought me the gazette this morning.
Speaker 6: I know.
Speaker 5: I saw, Well, that's your picture, ain't it right there
on the front peak that's my picture says you're a
dangerous man.
Speaker 6: I am.
Speaker 5: I didn't think you'd admit that. That proves to me
you're an honest man, mister Latham.
Speaker 2: There's uh a reward five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so are red offered by your wife. You must
like your real bed of for.
Speaker 2: That kind of money.
Speaker 5: Oh no, you don't want to go and go home?
Speaker 2: No. I found more peace, more kindness, more warmth here
than I've known in my life. I feel like I'm
getting well here. But so you can call the police
or turn me in, I won't fight you turn me in?
Speaker 6: What for.
Speaker 2: Five thousand dollars? There's a lot of money you could use.
Speaker 5: That I know. Oh, it's silly nonsense. I wouldn't think
of it. I wouldn't even consider it, not for a minute. Hello, yes,
stop her, mister Latham's doctor. I recognize your voice. Doctor.
Speaker 4: I see that you have over one thousand dollars for
the apprehension of your husband.
Speaker 5: Don't you think that's enough?
Speaker 4: I think you shouldn't have offered it at all.
Speaker 5: Oh, indeed, don't.
Speaker 4: You realize what you're doing? This is a matter for professionals,
so police. You're encouraging ordinary people to hut for him.
Speaker 5: Then what's wrong in that? Doctor?
Speaker 4: Your husband is a dangerous man. You know what can
happen if he's seen in an attempt is made to
capture him?
Speaker 5: What would happen? Doctor?
Speaker 4: Why might presult and seriously you're your.
Speaker 5: Death to whom, to the.
Speaker 4: Individual trying to make the capture, or to mister Latham.
Speaker 5: If the individuals are oh dear, I didn't realize.
Speaker 4: It, then you'll withdraw the five thousand reward?
Speaker 5: Yes, I shall, I will make it ten thousand. What
if he is so dangerous, wouldn't it be fair to
make the compensation higher, to make the risk more worthwhile? Doctor?
Speaker 4: Why you.
Speaker 6: Now? Van?
Speaker 5: You're sure you want to do it?
Speaker 2: I'm sure, Gammy huh.
Speaker 5: I drive into town myself, except my arthritis is kicking off.
I'll go and if he was not a feed for
the chickens, run in them will close. That belong to
my son Jonathan. Nobody know you was mister.
Speaker 2: Van with the beard I've grown in the last weekause,
so nobody will.
Speaker 5: Recognize me, that's for sure. Okay, Now watch yourself for
the old pickup. She's a little tricky and second gear stick.
Sometimes need just get out and tick you. It works
every time.
Speaker 11: I'll sleep for it.
Speaker 5: Take care boy, gollod morning.
Speaker 4: What can I do for you?
Speaker 2: I want fifty pounds of chicken feed?
Speaker 7: Fifty pounds, Yeah, here's your.
Speaker 2: Church charge to Gammy h missus Harry Anson.
Speaker 7: Sure, Gimmy, you waiting for her.
Speaker 6: Right here?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I didn't know gam we could afford.
Speaker 2: A hard man. How she can.
Speaker 5: Mm.
Speaker 7: That's an old pick up out there in it in
front of the store.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 7: He just comes in herself.
Speaker 2: Because he uh has rights.
Speaker 4: Again too bad.
Speaker 7: He wants some help with to feed getting it into
the carro.
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't heavy.
Speaker 1: I can man it.
Speaker 7: I just thought I got a package for Gamm. He
come in about three four days ago. Send out. I
noticed her.
Speaker 8: She get it.
Speaker 7: She didn't say he might well take it along, save
herself an extra trip. He went away to take.
Speaker 2: It very well.
Speaker 11: I put the feedback back of economy right with you.
Speaker 7: I'm Abel sheriff him. Get him on the phone quick, Tony. Yeah,
look you know that crazy guy they're looking for. It's
in all the papers, names lakem. He just walked into
my store. Recognize them from the picture in the paper.
Speaker 4: Wants some chicken feed.
Speaker 7: Huh keep me here or how soon?
Speaker 5: Make you make it quick?
Speaker 7: And there's a ten thousand dollars reward. Will split Charlie
fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4: I'll make it.
Speaker 7: Hast had a little trouble find a package, mister, I.
Speaker 2: Could have gone along without it.
Speaker 7: To make a bold bister, I've got your covered.
Speaker 4: I'm taking no chance with you.
Speaker 5: One move and I'll let you have it.
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 2: I stand, then, stay back or shoot?
Speaker 4: I'm killing give me.
Speaker 5: Hold meul me, hear you live, you will sharp me.
Speaker 2: It had finally happened. Death, which has hung over everything
like a bird of prey, has struck suddenly and disastrously.
That is no longer an escaped patient from a mental institution.
He is now a hunted killer. The concern an average
man might feel for a sick person had been replaced
by panic and fear. Now society was menaced, and the
first thought is to destroy the thing that frightened and
menaced it. I'll be back in a moment with Act three.
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Come on over for a drink?
Speaker 7: What is a drink?
Speaker 2: Where is it written that a drink is not a
drink unless it contains a slug of alcohol. Isn't lemonade
a drink?
Speaker 7: Aren't you drinking?
Speaker 2: Isn't coffee fruit juice, tea water? Soft drinks? Are those
non drinks?
Speaker 5: Let's get together for a drink.
Speaker 2: Is it so uncool to drink something that can't change
your perception of reality? Let me buy you a drink.
The strange idea that only drinks containing alcohol are real
drinks is so built into our society it has actually
become part of our language. I'll drink to that, and
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Speaker 7: Would you like a drink?
Speaker 5: I wonder what he meant by that.
Speaker 2: It was greed that prompted the offer of reward for
the capture of Van Latham, And it was greed that
prompted ed Bauers to attempt the capture of the hunted man.
How much more tragedy it can be squeezed from Mary
Latham's selfish offer.
Speaker 3: Time is running out.
Speaker 2: The hour glass has only a few grains of sand left.
The evil has festered and must break open in final violence, six,
end of three.
Speaker 5: Really not a very good throw. Looks like you're going
to have to leave two blots my luck.
Speaker 2: I'm no good at back gam and Mary, I can't
throw the right numbers.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's the complaint of all four players. It's skill,
not luck that makes the difference.
Speaker 2: I double, will I drop? I won't take the double.
Speaker 5: It's four dollars and forty cents. You will me?
Speaker 2: Eh, what difference does it make? Huh? It's all your money.
Speaker 6: That's right.
Speaker 5: You can't lose if you do lose.
Speaker 2: Sure, you sure know how to make your person feel good,
don't you dear?
Speaker 5: Oh come on, set up the board. I'll tell you
another game.
Speaker 6: I'm tired.
Speaker 2: I don't want to.
Speaker 5: Play, tired of backgammon. We're tired of me?
Speaker 2: No, Mary, not tired, just weary.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, yeah, all this.
Speaker 2: Business about your husband. You're trying to get control of
his money, no matter how.
Speaker 5: You do it, and that wearies you, dear money wearies.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, But I'm not well.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm not up to you.
Speaker 2: I haven't got your single minded this year. You're drive
to get what you want. I well, I like him
more relaxed life.
Speaker 5: Are you trying to tell me something?
Speaker 6: Really? Well?
Speaker 5: Mary, listen, I'm listening. Go ahead of the phone. Wait hello,
who oh yes, lieutenant? Yes, oh that's that's horrible. And
he my husband? Is he all right? Where did all
this happen? Upstate? Yes? I understand. But if you can
take him alive, I know you will exert every effort
to do so. But yes, I know you must consider
this safety of your men. Yes, oh yes, I will
pay it. Thank you for calling your donnant. He's done it,
He's finally done it. What's happened? Fan's killed? A man
post office feed store in a little town up state.
The man recognized Van from the pictures in the papers
tried to stop him with a shotgun. Van wrestled the
gun out of the man's hands and blasted him.
Speaker 2: Man's been killed.
Speaker 5: Yes, don't you see what that means?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 5: The police won't hesitate.
Speaker 2: To shoot and you engineered at all, Mary.
Speaker 5: He's right now. The police will do my work for me.
You know what the lieutenant said to me on the phone.
He asked me if the reward was still good if
they had to shoot Van, and you said yes, of course,
it won't be long now. He said that almost the
entire state police force was on this case.
Speaker 2: Suppose he comes here, Suppose he comes here to kill you.
I think you're number one on his list.
Speaker 5: Let him come see this willy revolver, and I have
a permit for it to him.
Speaker 2: So if the police don't get him, you will, oh,
I expect they'll beat me to it.
Speaker 5: This house will be under constant surveillance inside of an hour.
Speaker 2: If the police get to him first. That'll spoil things
a bit for you, won't it.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I like the sound of that remark,
Willie boy, what's spoiling in that little brain of yours?
Speaker 3: Nothing?
Speaker 2: Nothing, just making a joke. You know I wouldn't do
anything or say anything to upset you. Don't you marry
at least not when you've got a gun in your hand.
Speaker 5: Who's there, fan? Oh you poor boy?
Speaker 2: When you're coming any come here? Yes, I've been hiding
up and what's all day? I had to ditch your pick.
Speaker 5: The police brought it back to me. They've been here
then and gone. I said, I didn't know who you was,
just a hobo looking for some working for a place
to put his head.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a pretty accurate description of me, Jennie, looking
for a place to put my head.
Speaker 5: Oh you must be weary and hungry. Can I get yourself?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: No, no no, I can't stay get you into trouble.
I had to come back and thank you and tell
you how much you've done for me.
Speaker 5: Oh it wasn't much. I ain't got munchey.
Speaker 2: Oh you've got more. You've done more for.
Speaker 5: Me, My boy boy, I feel like you was one
of my own kids.
Speaker 2: Well, it's what I've been trying to say these few
days here with You have done more for me than
all the doctors I've known in my life, more than
all the treatment in all the hospitals are you.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna give yourself up?
Speaker 6: Man? No, no, I can't.
Speaker 5: They'll kill you.
Speaker 6: You don't.
Speaker 5: They'll shoot you down just to collect that reward. They'll
get you dead or alive. Now that Ed Bowers is dead.
Speaker 2: Why didn't want to kill him? Keamny It was an accident.
He threatened me with a gun. We wrestled and the
gun went off. I didn't want to hurt him. I
just wanted to be left alone. Oh, I believe you,
but they won't.
Speaker 5: You got to give yourself up so they won't kidd you.
I wonder if it matters it matters to me, then.
Speaker 2: All right, if you want me to gammy, I'll give
myself up.
Speaker 5: Oh I do. And who knows, maybe they'll let you
come out someday and we can see each other rick again, Yes, lieutenant,
Yes I know you will. Yes, thank you, goodbye. The
police have to believe he's still somewhere upstate.
Speaker 2: Y're running for Canada.
Speaker 5: Probably can say that the Canadian Border patrols have been
alerted to be on the lookout.
Speaker 2: Just like an old movie. Eh well, I can see
it now, snow falling Wilderness, Royal Northwest Moladai's.
Speaker 5: Very funny I wish you'd lay off the bottle. You're
drinking too much and you don't make sensible so the timon.
Speaker 2: Well, that's my excuse, what's yours?
Speaker 5: Will I'm bored with your company? Will you go home?
Speaker 2: Home is where the heart is. Haven't you heard?
Speaker 5: You are drunk and I don't want to continue the
stupid conversation. Go back to your hotel.
Speaker 6: Never.
Speaker 2: Hey, what do you think I am? I think i'd
leave with this danger?
Speaker 3: What do you take me for?
Speaker 5: There's no danger. The police say they don't believe there's
any chance of his coming back here.
Speaker 2: Yes, but the police have been known to be wrong.
Suppose Van comes back here.
Speaker 5: I don't need you to protect me from him.
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I know. But who's going to protect
him from you?
Speaker 5: Hello?
Speaker 4: I'm a slave?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Is superheading to your husband's doctor?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 5: Doctor, I've heard.
Speaker 4: On the radio on television that they're searching for your
husband of state.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: I don't believe he will try to run away. I
believe he will come there to you.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 4: I know him very well. I know how his mind
will work. He has him in his mind to kill you.
Speaker 7: All our tests analysis hypnosis reveal is one strong abiding
ape for you, now.
Speaker 4: That is my opinion.
Speaker 5: What are you worried about?
Speaker 6: Doctor?
Speaker 4: Frankly, I'm worried about my patient. That boty you.
Speaker 5: Put on his head you don't approve.
Speaker 4: It's a license to kill. It makes killing profitable. He'll
be shot down.
Speaker 5: Perhaps, but after all he is a killer. He's killed
a man.
Speaker 4: I am only his doctor and not his judge.
Speaker 5: And you are not concerned with the safety of other people.
You're not concerned that he will try to kill me?
Of course I am, but I don't wish to continue
this doctor. I feel the entire problem is in competent hands.
I am not the least a bit worried. Thank you
for your interest.
Speaker 2: Is doctor worried about you know, about his patient? Well,
I guess there's not going to be any excitement here tonight.
Speaker 6: Why.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was looking out the.
Speaker 11: Window while you were on the phone.
Speaker 2: You know that squad car with the two cops who've
been outside the last few days guarding the house.
Speaker 5: They're gone. Then the police must have captured him.
Speaker 2: Oh bitter still knocked him off and guaranteed your inheritance.
Speaker 5: Right. I have a number to call for information. That
lieutenant gave it to me.
Speaker 2: Put down the phone. Mary, put it down. I'm not
here to hurt you.
Speaker 5: Why no, man, why should you hurt me.
Speaker 2: I'm going to give myself up to the police.
Speaker 5: Give yourself up. What do you think that wise man?
Speaker 2: You've killed a man didn't want to. That was an accident.
Speaker 5: That doesn't matter. They think you're a killer. You've got
to run away. I'll help you. I'll get money to you.
I've got money ready for you now in this drawer.
You've got to run it.
Speaker 2: If you believe that Latham, you're really crazy.
Speaker 5: Shut up, will and believe me. You've got to get away.
Don't run. You're dead. If you run, you hear me.
Speaker 2: She wants to see you're dead to get your money.
Speaker 11: Shut you know, Mary.
Speaker 5: No, you wouldn't get don't.
Speaker 6: Oh you shot him?
Speaker 5: Stand back then stand back?
Speaker 2: Why why he wanted to help you? I that gun up?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Why did you do that?
Speaker 5: Hello, Lieutenant, this is Mary Nathan. My husband came here
attack me. I had to shoot him a straight bullet.
He is an innocent person.
Speaker 2: I wish to make the following statement, knowing that I
haven't long to live. Mary Lighton shot me because I
wanted to warn her husband that she intended to kill
him for his money.
Speaker 7: And if I sit next to you, mister rost old doctor,
sit down.
Speaker 2: It's a sad occay business. He oldest doctor or as you.
Speaker 7: Yes, from seventy years until now, Why go into that?
Speaker 2: And I like to remember Van as a small boy
when I first knew him.
Speaker 5: Pleasant, it's a happy, friendly yellowster.
Speaker 7: I was just thinking that it's rather small gathering to
save her older families.
Speaker 2: Yes, I had no family left.
Speaker 7: Just well, she's not here today. I think the authorities
have a fairly tight case against her.
Speaker 2: That's statement made by that associate of hers, which I
would say that the state will have no problems.
Speaker 7: Rather said that Van is going to his final resting
place only his doctor in his old attorney, but he
only wants to see him off. I noticed someone else
when I came into the chapel, sitting in the last pew,
an old woman sitting all alone. She was crying.
Speaker 2: And so the comedy is over. Three men have died,
and the woman who is desire for money lighted the
fire that consumed the men will face a jury of
her peers to account for her actions. Greed is an
evil hunger that feeds on its own appetite and can
never be satiated. I'll be back in a moment. Here's
a tip from your Better Business Bureau on the metric system.
Have you noticed the metric measurements on packaged foods at
your supermarket lately? Soon the metric system of measurement will
be commonplace all around the country, and you should be
ready for it. Look carefully at the metric measurements on
the foods you buy. They may seem bewildering at first,
but they make a lot more sense than the system
of measurement we're currently using. For example, right now, fluid
measures are expressed in gallons, quartz and pints. Dry measures
are expressed in bushels, pecks, dry quartz, and pints, and
a dry quart is sixteen percent larger in volume than
a liquid quart. By using the metric system, however, you
only need to know one unit of measurement for liquid volume,
the leader. All other fluid measurements of multiples of the leader,
and similarly, dry volumes are measured by the graham and
multiples of the gram. This has been a tip from
your Better Business Bureau on the metric system. The little
old woman sat in the back of the chapel and
wept for her adopted son, whom she knew for only
a moment, and for whom she would grieve the rest
of her life. Perhaps Van had known and rejoiced in
that moment of peace and love, perhaps the first and
only love he had ever known, the only peace. Our
cast included Joan Loring, Larry Haynes, Earl Hammond, Sid Sloan,
and Mary Jane Higbee. The entire production was under the
direction of Hymond Brown, and now a preview of our
next tale.
Speaker 5: You said I look nineteen or twenty. I'm only eighteen.
Speaker 11: Well that's great. I'm twenty five.
Speaker 5: I was born in the year fifteen fifty four.
Speaker 11: Who every girl should marry a more mature man.
Speaker 5: Did you hear what I said? I was born in
fifteen fifty four.
Speaker 11: Sure that means you have to be more than four
hundred years old. He's the same thing for men. They
should also marry mature woman.
Speaker 5: John, I was eighteen years old in the year fifteen
seventy two. I've been eighteen years old ever since. I
simply don't grow older. I can't grow older.
Speaker 11: That's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Do you realize how long I've lived, how many lives
I've met?
Speaker 11: What an absolutely tremendous imagination.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you the truth. I can't grow older, I
can't be killed, I can't die.
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